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MEMOIRS 

OF 

LADY FANSHAWE, 

WIFE OF THE 

RIGHT HON. SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE, BART. 

AMBASSADOR FROM CHARLES THE SECOND TO THE COURT 
OF MADRID IN 1()()5. 



WRITTEN BY HERSELF. 



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TO WHICH ARE ADD^D, 

EXTRACTS FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE 

OF 

SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE. 



LONDON: 

HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 

MDCCCXXIX. 




LONDON : 

PRINTED BY S. AND R. BENTLEY, 

Dorset street, Fleet-street. 



387370 



TO 
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS 

THE 

DUCHESS OF CLARENCE, 



Madam, 

The gracious permission to de- 
dicate the following Memoirs to your 
Royal Highness, which you have been 
pleased to grant to me, demands my high- 
est gratitude. 

The regret which has been expressed, 
'' that these Memoirs have so long been 
kept back," must give place to congratula- 
tion that they are now published, when it 
shall be known that the most exalted 

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Princess of this realm, so well qualified to 
judge of their merits, is inclined to certify 
their value. 

Should times, which God forbid! call 
for a similar exertion, may the descend- 
ants of Lady Fanshawe prove that loy- 
alty and courage did not die with her ; but 
that those qualities still animate the hearts 
and steel the hands of her family, 

" Like men to conquer, or like Christians fall." 

I have the honour to be, 

Madam, 
with sentiments of the highest 
gratitude and respect. 
Your Royal Highness's devoted and most 
obedient humble Servant, 
Charles Robert Fanshawe. 



PREFACE. 



A PERUSAL of the following Memoir 
must create surprise that it should not 
long since have been given to the world; 
more particularly, as it has not only been 
frequently cited, but copiously quoted, in 
various popular works, and always in the 
warmest terms of admiration, accompa- 
nied by expressions of regret that the 
MS. was allowed to remain inedited. To 
what cause the delay in its appearance is 
to be attributed, it is not requisite to in- 
quire ; and the remarks which are neces- 
sary to introduce it, will be confined to 
a notice of the principal claims which it 
possesses to attention. 



vi PREFACE. 

The life of that person whose autobio- 
graphy, if written with simphcity and 
truth, would not be both instructive and 
amusing, must have been unusually mo- 
notonous, or he must be destitute of 
ability to describe it. All which is re- 
quired in compositions of that nature are, 
that the writer should record what he saw 
and heard, the various feelings by which 
he was influenced, the conduct of those 
with whom he came in contact, with such 
anecdotes as occurred or were related to 
him ; and if he succeeds in impressing his 
readers with confidence in his veracity, he 
may rest assured of their approbation and 
gratitude. 

If this be true of autobiography in ge- 
neral, much may be expected from the 
Memoirs of an accomplished and clever 
woman, the wife of one of the most faithful 
servants of Charles the First and Charles 



PREFACE. VU 



the Second, who, after severe sufferings in 
the royal cause, in England, Scotland, Ire- 
land, France, and Spain, became a member 
of the Privy Council, and Ambassador from 
the last-mentioned monarch to two foreign 
Courts ; because she was his constant com- 
panion, excepting when it was requisite 
that she should separate from him to 
raise money for the support of her family, 
or to enable her husband to fulfil the im- 
portant trusts which were confided to him. 
From the day of her marriage until she 
became a widow, a period of more than 
twenty years, her life was one scene of ac- 
tivity, privation, and danger. The fortitude 
with which she endured, and the heroism 
with which she surmounted difficulties, 
that would have overwhelmed an ordinary 
mind ; the heroism she displayed on many 
trying occasions; and her ardent loyalty 
to her sovereign, give to the early part of 



viii PREFACE. 

her narrative the air of a romance; but 
the iniquestionable veracity of her state- 
ments, her moral courage, and above all, 
her practical, but unassuming piety, ex- 
cite a degree of interest which no ro- 
mance can impart, because it can alone 
be produced by Truth. 

The Memoir was written in the year 
1676, for the instruction of her only 
surviving son, Sir Richard Fanshawe, then 
a youth, to whom it is addressed. Her 
style is as remarkable for its simplicity 
and elegance, as her advice to her son 
is sound and excellent ; and whether the 
Memoir be read for the historical infor- 
mation which it contains, or with no 
higher motive than for amusement, it 
would be difficult to name a volume 
that would more amply gratify either ob- 
ject. Celebrated as this country is for fe- 
male talent and virtue, there is no one with 



PREFACE. IX 

whom Lady Fanshawe may not be com- 
pared and gain by the comparison ; for be- 
sides her literary merits, it was her pecuUar 
fortune to afford in her own conduct 
instances of conjugal devotion, of maternal 
excellence, and of enduring fortitude under 
calamities, which render her a bright ex- 
ample to posterity. 

In preparing the volume for the press, 
the Editor's duties have been rather of 
a negative than positive description. It 
has been truly said, that as much editorial 
tact may be evinced by refraining from in- 
terfering with an author, as by attempting 
to improve him; and perhaps in no case 
was it more desirable that a narrative should 
be printed precisely as it came from the 
mind of the writer, than in the present : 
he has therefore refoained from making 
any other alteration in the text than to 
correct the orthography. There is cause 



X PKEFACE. 

to believe that the MS. is not so perfect 
as might have been wished, as there are a 
few evident mistakes in dates, the names 
of persons are sometimes mis-spelt, and 
one or two trifling discrepancies occur. 

It was difficult to correct the errors in 
the dates, because the Authoress sometimes 
uses the old, and sometimes the new style, 
and now and then speaks of things out of 
the order in which they happened; but 
the most material of those mistakes are 
pointed out in the Notes, which also con- 
tain the few illustrations the text requires. 
The MS., from which this volume is print- 
ed, was copied, in 1786, from one written 
in 1766, by Lady Fanshawe'^s great grand- 
daughter, Charlotte Colman, from the ori- 
ginal, which was written under her Lady- 
ship's inspection about four years before 
her death. 

At the end of the volume, numerous 



PREFACE. xi 

extracts will be found from Sir Richard 
Fanshawe's official Correspondence, which 
contain every statement of the least gene- 
ral interest. Some of these are printed 
for the first time; and a brief Memoir, 
presenting the principal facts in the life of 
himself and his wife is prefixed, with the 
hope of rendering ~ her narrative better 
understood. 

March 5, 1829. 



INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. 



It may, possibly, be thought unneces- 
sary to prefix to this work a biographi- 
cal sketch of the persons whose careers 
are faithfully related in it ; and that it is 
an act of imprudence to place the cold 
and measured statements of an Editor, in 
juxtaposition with the nervous and glow- 
ing narrative of the amiable historian of 
the lives of her husband and herself. 
The latter objection, however true, ought 
not to prevent such remarks being made 
as may tend to cause her labours to be 
better understood, and more highly appre- 



xiv INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. 

ciatetl; especially as information can be 
supplied, and, in a few instances, com- 
ments submitted, which may possibly ren- 
der that justice to the writer, it was 
impossible for her to do to herself. 

These pages will, however, chiefly con- 
tain a statement of the events of the lives 
of Sir Richard and Lady Fanshawe; and 
although most of them are mentioned 
in her Memoir, they are so frequently 
interrupted by anecdotes and reflections, 
as well as by accounts of places and cere- 
monies, that it is often diflicult to follow 
her. This article may then be considered 
as the outline of a picture, which is filled 
up by a far abler and more pleasing ar- 
tist ; or, perhaps, it bears a nearer resem- 
blance to the graphic references which 
generally accompany the descriptions of 
paintings, for the purpose of illustrating 
them. 



INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. XV 

The genealogy of the Fanshawe family 
is so fully stated in the Memoir, that it 
is not requisite to allude to the subject, 
farther than to observe, that Sir Richard 
was descended from an ancient and re- 
pectable house; that many of its members 
filled official situations under the Crown, 
and were honoured with Knighthood; that 
he was the fifth and youngest son of Sir 
Henry Fanshawe, of Ware Park, in Hert- 
fordshire, Knight, by Elizabeth, daughter 
of Thomas Smythe, Esq. ancestor of the 
Viscounts Strangford ; and that his eldest 
brother was raised to the peerage by 
the title of Viscount Fanshawe, of Dro- 
more, in Ireland. 

Sir Richard Fanshawe was born at Ware 
Park, in June 1608, and was baptized on 
the 12th of that month. His father hav- 
ing died in I6I6, when he was little 
more than seven years old, the care of 



xvi INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. 

his education devolved on his mother, 
who placed him under the celebrated 
school-master, Thomas Farneby ; and in 
November 1623, he v^as admitted a Fellow- 
commoner of Jesus College, Cambridge, 
where he is said to have prosecuted his 
studies with success, and to have evinced 
a genius for classical literature. Being 
intended for the Bar, he was entered of 
the Inner Temple on the 22nd of Janu- 
ary, 1626 ; but that profession ill-accorded 
with his taste, and he appears to have 
selected it in obedience to the wishes 
of his mother, rather than from his own 
choice. It has been supposed that he con- 
tinued his legal pursuits until her death 
left him free to follow his inclination to 
travel ; but this is not the fact, as he had 
returned to England before her decease. 
At what period he abandoned the law is 
not known ; but, about 1627, he went 
abroad, with the view of acquiring foreign 



INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. ^vil 

languages. Lady Fanshawe informs us, 
that the whole stock of money with which 
he commenced his travels did not exceed 
eighty five pounds ; that he proceeded 
first to Paris, where he remained for twelve 
months, and thence went to Madrid ; and 
that he did not return to England for 
some years. In 1630, he was appointed 
Secretary to Lord Aston s embassy to the 
Court of Spain, in consequence, it is said, 
of the information which he possessed of 
the country ; but in attaining that know- 
ledge he spent great part of his patri- 
mony, which amounted to o£50 per annum, 
and £1500 in money. 

When Lord Aston was recalled, Mr. Fan- 
shawe remained as the Charge d' Affaires 
until Sir Arthur Hopton was nominated 
Ambassador to Madrid; and he ar- 
rived in England in 1637 or 1638. For 
two years after his return, he seems to 

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will INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. 

have been in constant expectation of some 
appointment, but his views are stated to 
have been frustrated by Secretary Winde- 
bank. At the expiration of that time, 
his eldest brother resigned to him the 
situation of Remembrancer of the Court 
of Exchequer, but upon terms which pre- 
vented its being of any immediate pecu- 
niary advantage to him. The Civil War, 
however, then broke out, and being one 
of the King's sworn servants, he attend- 
ed his Majesty to Oxford, where he met 
the fair author of these Memoirs. 

Ann, the eldest daughter of Sir John 
Harrison, of Balls, in the county of Hert- 
ford, by Margaret, daughter of Robert Fan- 
shawe, of Fanshawe Gate, Esq. great uncle 
to Sir Richard Fanshawe, was born in St. 
Olave's Hart Street, London, on the 25th 
of March 1625. Of her education and early 
life she has given a pleasing description. 



INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. xix 

and, until the Civil War, her family lived in 
uninterrupted happiness. Her father having 
warmly espoused the Royal cause, he at- 
tended the Court to Oxford, and desired 
his daughters to come to him in that city, 
w^here they endured many privations, " liv- 
ing in a bakers house in an obscure street, 
and sleeping in a bad bed in a garret, 
with bad provisions, no money, and little 
clothes." The picture of Oxford at that 
moment is truly deplorable, and the suf- 
ferings of the royalists appear to have been 
very severe, but which she describes as 
having been borne " with a martyr-like 
cheerfulness." The offer of a Baronetcy 
to her father, — the only return which it 
was then in the power of the Crown to be- 
stow, for the heavy losses he had sustained, 
—was gratefully declined on the ground of 
poverty. In 1644, important changes took 
place in her family, or, as she poetically 

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XX INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. 

expresses it, alluding to the state of pub- 
lic affairs, " as the turbulence of the 
waves disperses the splinters of the rock," 
so were they separated. Her brother 
William died in consequence of a fall 
from his horse, which was shot under 
him in a skirmish against a party of the 
Earl of Essex the year before ; and on 
the 18th of May, she became the wife 
of Mr. Fanshawe, in Wolvercot Church, 
two miles from Oxford, being then in 
her twentieth year, and her husband 
about thirty-six. He was at that time 
Secretary at War, and was promised pro- 
motion on the first opportunity. The 
fortune of each was in expectation : they 
were, she says, "truly merchant adven- 
turers," their whole capital being only 
twenty pounds ; and, to preserve the si- 
mile, that capital was laid out in the 
articles of his trade — ^in pens, ink, and 



INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. xxi 

paper. What was wanting in money was 
amply supplied by prudence and affec- 
tion ; and there is no difficulty in believ- 
ing her assurance, that they lived better 
than those whose prospects were much 
brighter. 

Whilst at Oxford, in 1644, the Univer- 
sity conferred on Mr. Fanshawe the degree 
of Doctor of Laws. In the beginning of 
March, 1645, he attended the Prince to 
Bristol, but in consequence of his wife's 
confinement, she did not accompany him ; 
and the circumstances of their separa- 
tion are affecting. She joined him in that 
city in May, at which time he was ap- 
pointed Secretary to the Prince of Wales, 
but in consequence of the plague, they 
quitted Bristol, in July 1645, and pro- 
ceeded with his Royal Highness to Barn- 
staple, and thence to Launceston and 
Truro, in Cornwall. From Truro the 



xxii INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. 

Court removed to Pendennis Castle ; and 
early in April 1646, the Prince and his 
suite embarked for the Scilly Islands. 
Great as were their privations at Oxford, 
they were much exceeded by their suffer- 
ings at Scilly ; and no one can peruse the 
description of their voyage to, and lodgings 
in, that island w^ith indifference. To ill- 
ness were added cold and hunger: they 
were plundered by their friends in flying 
from their enemies, and to add to the 
misery of their situation, Mrs. Fanshawe 
was very near her confinement. 

After passing three weeks in that deso- 
late place, the Prince and his suite went 
to Jersey, where they were hospitably re- 
ceived ; and where Mrs. Fanshawe gave 
birth to her second child. On the Prince's 
quitting Jersey, in July, for Paris, Mr. Fan- 
shawe's employment ceased ; and he re- 



INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. xxiii 

mained in that island with Lord Capell, 
Lord Hopton, and the Chancellor, for a 
fortnight after his Highnesses departure, 
when he and his wife went to Caen, to his 
brother Lord Fanshawe, who was ill, leav- 
ing their infant at Jersey, under the care 
of Lady Carteret, the wife of the Governor. 
From Caen, Mrs. Fanshawe was sent to 
England, by her husband, to raise money : 
she arrived in London early in Septem- 
ber 1646, where she succeeded in ob- 
taining permission for him to compound 
for his estates in the sum of 300/. and to 
return. 

They continued in England until Octo- 
ber 1647, living in great seclusion ; and in 
July in that year, whilst the unfortunate 
Charles was at Hampton Court, Mr. Fan- 
shawe waited on him, and received his 
instructions to proceed to Madrid. Mrs. 



xxiv INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. 

Fansliawe states that she had three audien- 
ces of his Majesty at Hampton Court, and 
her description of the last interview with 
which she and her husband were honoured, 
exhibits the injured Monarch as a husband, 
a father, a master, a sovereign, and a Chris- 
tian, in the most pleasing light, and is am- 
ple evidence of the natural goodness of 
his heart. " The last time I ever saw him," 
she says, " was on taking my leave. I 
could not refrain from weeping, and when 
he saluted me, I prayed to God to pre- 
serve his Majesty with long life and happy 
years. He stroked me on the cheek, and 
said, ' Child, if God pleaseth it shall be so ; 
but both you and I must submit to God's 
will, and you know in what hands I am.' 
Turning to Mr. Fanshawe, he said, ' Be 
sure, Dick,* to tell my son all that I have 

* That the Royal family were accustomed to address 
Mr. Fanshawe in so famihar a manner, appears from a 



INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. xxv 

said, and deliver those letters to my wife. 
Pray God bless her ! I hope I shall do 
well;' and taking him in his arms, ob- 
served, ' Thou hast ever been an honest 
man, and I hope God will bless thee, and 
make thee a happy servant to my son, 
whom I have charged in my letter to con- 
tinue his love and trust to you ;' adding, ' I 
do promise you, that if ever I am restored 
to my dignity, I will bountifully reward 
you both for your service and sufferings/ " 
"Thus," Mrs. Fanshawe remarks, "did 
we part from that glorious sun, that within 
a few months after was murdered, to the 
grief of all Christians that were not for- 
saken by God/' 

letter from the Duke of York, afterwards James the Se- 
cond, dated at Paris, 18th November, 1651, to Sir Ed- 
ward Nicholas : " I have received yours of the 8th of 
November from the Hage, and with it that frorh Dicke 
Fanshawy — Evelyn's Correspondence, vol. v. p. 188. 



xwi INTKODUC TORY MEMOIR. 

In the few days they passed at Ports- 
mouth, previous to their quitting England 
in October 1647, they narrowly escaped 
being killed by a shot fired into the town 
by the Dutch fleet. From that place they 
embarked for France, but returned to 
England, in April 1648, by Jersey, whence 
they brought with them their daughter, 
whom they had left under the care of Lady 
Carteret. In September, Mr. Fanshawe 
attended the Prince of Wales on board 
the fleet in the Downs, in which a division 
existed, part being for the King and part for 
the Parliament : the Prince resolved to re- 
duce the latter to obedience by force, but 
a storm separated the ships, and prevent- 
ed the engagement. Three months after- 
wards, Mr. Fanshawe went to Paris on the 
Prince's affairs, whither he was followed by 
his wife ; and they passed six weeks there 
in the society of the Queen-mother and the 



INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. xxvH 

Princess Royal and their suite, amongst 
whom was the poet Waller and his wife. 
From Paris they went to Calais, where 
they met Sir Kenelm Digby, who related 
some of his extraordinary stories : from 
that town she again went to England with 
the hope of raising money for his sub- 
sistence abroad and her own at home. 
Mr. Fanshawe was sent to Flanders ; and 
thence, in the February following, into Ire- 
land, to receive whatever money Prince 
Rupert could raise by the fleet under his 
command, but that effort proved unsuc- 
cessful. At her husband's desire, Mrs. 
Fanshawe proceeded with her family to 
join him, and landed at Youghal after a 
hazardous voyage. They took up their 
residence at Red Abbey, a house be- 
longing to Dean Boyle, near Cork, and 
passed six months in comparative tran- 
quillity, receiving great kindness from the 



xxviii INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. 

nobility and gentry of the neighbour- 
hood. 

Their happiness, however, was but tran- 
sitory. The death of their second son 
plunged them into affliction; and the land- 
ing of Cromwell obliged Prince Rupert's 
fleet, the presence of which had contri- 
buted to their security, to quit Ireland; 
and very shortly afterwards, in November 
1649, Cork declared for the Usurper. At 
that moment her husband was at Kinsale ; 
and her account of the danger to which 
that event exposed her, and of her perilous 
escape, together with her family and ser- 
vants, from Red Abbey to Kinsale, is full 
of interest. 

A few days after this affair, Mr. Fan- 
shawe received the King's commands to 
go to Madrid with a letter to his Catho- 
lic Majesty : on their journey they passed 
through Limerick, where he was present 



INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. xxix 

when Lord Roscommon met his singular fate, 
of being killed by a fall down the stairs, 
whilst holding a candle to Mr. Fanshawe on 
going out of the room where they had held 
a consultation. His Lordship lived only 
a few days after the accident, and, just 
before his death, placed the Great Seal of 
Ireland into Mr. Fanshawe's hands. This 
accident retarded their departure until 
they heard from the King, during which 
time they were most courteously treated 
by Lord Inchiquin ; and an extraordinary 
circumstance is related by Mrs. Fanshawe, 
of a vision having appeared to her whilst 
on a visit to the daughter of the Earl of 
Thomond. 

On receiving orders from his Majesty to 
deliver the Seals to Lord Inchiquin, Mr. 
Fanshawe proceeded on his mission, and 
embarked with his wife at Galway, in Fe- 
bruary 1650, on board a Dutch ship for 



xx\ INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. 

Malaga. Their entry into Galway, which 
liad been devastated by the plague, is de- 
serving of attention ; and an anecdote, 
which is related of the conduct of the 
Marquis of Worcester to the merchants 
of that town, if true, reflects equal dis- 
grace on the cause w^hich he espoused and 
on his own memory. 

As if their every movement was to be, 
attended with peril, the ship in which 
they embarked was menaced by a Turk- 
ish galley soon after it passed the Straits 
of Gibraltar; on which occasion Mrs. 
Fanshawe displayed extraordinary hero- 
ism, by assuming the dress of the cabin- 
boy, and placing herself on the deck by 
the side of her husband. Fortunately, 
however, her courage was not subjected 
to a severer test; for the Turk sheered 
off without attacking their vessel. They 
arrived safely at Malaga, and set out for 



INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. xxxi 

Madrid, passing through Granada; and 
several pages are filled with a description 
of the Alhambra near that city. 

Being unsuccessful in his effort to obtain 
a supply of money from the Spanish Court, 
his wife and himself embarked at St. Se- 
bastian for France, and arrived at Nantz, 
after a dangerous passage, about the end 
of October 1650, and reached Paris in the 
middle of November. 

On the 2nd of September, in that year, 
Mr. Fanshawe was created a Baronet ; and 
it is not a little singular that no other allu- 
sion should occur to the circumstance in 
the Memoir than a notice of his having 
left the patent in Scotland before the bat- 
tle of Worcester. 

The Queen received them at Paris with 
great attention; and, after many acts of 
favour, she dispatched Sir Richard to 
Charles, who was then on his way to 



xxxli INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. 

Scotland. Lady Faiishawe and her hus- 
band proceeded to Calais, it being neces- 
sary that she should go to England to 
procure money for his journey ; and in 
the mean time he intended to reside in 
Holland; but circumstances caused him 
to be immediately sent into Scotland, 
where he was received with marked kind- 
ness by the King and by the York party, 
who gave him the custody of the Great 
Seal and Privy Signet. No persuasions 
could induce him to take the covenant ; 
but he performed the duties of his office 
with a zeal and temper, which, we are 
told, obtained for him the esteem of all 
parties. 

Lady Fanshawe continued in London, in 
a state of great uneasiness about Sir Ri- 
chard, with very limited resources, having 
two young children to maintain ; and to add 
to her discomfort, she was again very near 



INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. xxxni 

her confinement. She observes, that she 
seldom went out of her lodgings, and spent 
her time chiefly in prayer for the deliver- 
ance of the King and her husband. Her 
daughter Elizabeth was born on the 24th 
of June, and on her recovery she went to 
her brother-in-law's, at Ware Park, where 
the news reached her of the battle of W or- 
cester, on the 3rd of September ; and after 
some days' suspense, she learned that Sir 
Richard was taken prisoner. 

Lady Fanshawe hastened to town, in- 
tending to seek him wherever he might 
be ; but on her arrival she learned from 
him that he would shortly be brought to 
London, and he appointed a place near 
Charing Cross w^here she should meet him. 
Their interview lasted only a few hours ; 
after which he was conveyed to White- 
hall, and was closely confined there for 
ten weeks, expecting daily to be put to 



xxxiv INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. 

death. The manner m which she went 
secretly to his prison at four o'clock every 
morning, and her unwearied zeal to 
alleviate his sufferings, afford a beautiful 
example of female devotion ; and it was 
owing to her exertions alone that he was 
ultimately released on bail. 

Illness induced Sir Richard to go to 
Bath, in August, 1652, the greater part 
of the winter of which year they passed 
at Benford, in Hertfordshire ; but having 
occasion to wait on the Earl of Strafford, 
in Yorkshire, his Lordship offered him a 
house in Tankersley Park, which he accept- 
ed. His family removed thither in March, 
1653, and during his residence there, he 
amused himself in literary pursuits, and 
translated Luis de Camoens. The death 
of their favourite daughter Ann, on the 
20th July, 1654, at the age of between 
nine and ten> made them quit Tankersley, 



INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. xxxv 

and they proceeded to Homerton, in Hunt- 
ingdonshire, the seat of Sir Richard Fan- 
shawe's sister, Lady Bedell, where they re- 
sided six months ; when he being sent for 
to London, and forbidden to go beyond five 
miles from it, his wife and children removed 
to the metropolis. Excepting a visit to 
Frog Pool, in Kent, the residence of Sir 
Philip Warwick, they remained in London 
until July 1656, during which time Lady 
Fanshawe had two children, and her hus- 
band suffered severely from illness. 

Tired of living in town, Sir Richard ob- 
tained permission to go to Bengy, in Hert- 
fordshire, where he and her Ladyship were 
attacked with an ague, which confined her 
to her bed for many months, and did not 
finally leave her for nearly two years, when 
a visit to Bath perfectly restored them both. 
The news of Cromwell's death, in Septem- 
ber, 1658, which reached them whilst in 

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XXXV 1 INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. 

that city, caused them to go to London, with 
the hope of Sir Richard's getting released 
from his bail ; and under the pretence of 
becoming tutor to the son of the Earl of 
Pembroke, whilst on his travels, he was per- 
mitted to leave England. On his arrival at 
Paris, he wrote to Lord Clarendon, acquaint- 
ing him with his escape, and desiring him 
to inform his Majesty of the circumstance. 
About April 1659, his Lordship replied 
that the King w^as then going into Spain, 
but that on his return, which would be 
in the beginning of the winter, he should 
come to his Majesty, who in the mean 
time gave him the situation of one of the 
Masters of Requests, and Latin Secretary. 
Sir Richard Fanshawe then requested his 
wife to come to Paris with part of his chil- 
dren, but her application for a passport was 
refused ; and she relates the ingenious man- 
ner in which she imposed upon the Govern- 



INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. xxxvii 

ment, by obtaining a pass in the name of 
Ann Harrison, the pretended wife of a 
young merchant, and altering the word 
to Fanshawe, by which means she escaped 
to Calais, and joined her husband at Paris. 
Charles came to Combes, near Paris, on 
a visit to his mother, in November, 1659, 
where Sir Richard and Lady Fanshawe 
had an interview with him, and were re- 
ceived most graciously, with promises of 
future protection. Sir Richard being de- 
sired to foUow^ him to Flanders, he went 
thither, in December, having previously 
sent his wife to London for money, where 
she arrived with her children, in January, 
1660. Soon afterwards she followed him 
to Newport, Bruges, Ghent, and Brussels, 
where the Royal family of England were 
residing, by all of whom they were treated 
with kindness. After staying three weeks 
at Brussels, Sir Richard and Lady Fan- 



xxxviii INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. 

shawe went to Breda, where they heard of 
the Restoration, at which place, in April, 
his Majesty conferred on him the honour 
of knighthood,* though the fact is not 
mentioned in the Memoir. 

On joining the King at the Hague, 
he promised to reward Sir Richard's fide- 
lity and sufferings, by appointing him Se- 
cretary of State ; but through the machi- 
nations of " that false man," as Lady Fan- 
shawe calls Lord Clarendon, the royal word 
was not fulfilled. When his Majesty em- 
barked for England, Sir Richard was order- 
ed to attend him in his own ship ; and a 
frigate was appointed to convey his family. 
The morning after Charles's arrival at 
Whitehall, Lady Fanshawe, with other 
ladies of her family, waited upon him to 
offer their congratulations, on which oc- 
casion, he assured her of his favour, and 

* Biographia Britannica. 



INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. xxxix 

presented Sir Richard with his portrait 
set in diamonds. In the ParUament sum- 
moned immediately after the restoration 
he was returned for the University of 
Cambridge ; and " had the good fortune/' 
his affectionate biographer says, " to be 
the first chosen, and the first returned 
member of the Commons House in Par- 
Uament, after the King came home ; and 
this cost him no more than a letter 
of thanks, and two brace of bucks, and 
twenty broad pieces of gold to buy them 
wine/' 

To the jealousy of Lord Clarendon, who 
was anxious to remove Sir Richard from 
about the King's person. Lady Fanshawe 
imputes the circumstance of his being sent 
to Portugal to negotiate the marriage with 
the Princess Katharine, to whom he was 
charged to present his Majesty's picture ; 
but this appointment is strong proof of 



xl INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. 

the confidence which was reposed in his 
discretion and abihties. He returned to 
England in December, and during his ab- 
sence Lady Fanshawe remained in Lon- 
don, where she gave birth to a daughter 
in January 1662. On the arrival of the 
Queen at Portsmouth, Sir Richard Fan- 
shawe was sent to receive her, and was 
present at her marriage, the description of 
which ceremony is historically valuable. 

Early in 1662, he was nominated a 
Privy Counsellor of Ireland : in August he 
was again sent on an embassy to Lisbon, 
and was accompanied by his wife and 
children. Their journey to Plymouth, 
their voyage, their arrival at Lisbon, their 
reception at Court and the city, are mi- 
nutely described. After a year's residence 
in Portugal, Sir Richard was recalled : he 
returned to London in September 1663, 
and proceeded to wait on the King at 



INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. xli 

Bath, who was pleased to raise him to the 
rank of a Privy Counsellor. In January 
1664, he was appointed Ambassador to the 
Court of Madrid, and having embarked 
at Portsmouth, with a numerous retinue, 
on board a squadron, on the 31st of that 
month, they arrived at Cadiz on the 23rd 
of February. Nearly the whole of the 
remainder of the Memoir is filled with 
an account of their journey to Madrid, of 
their splendid reception, of the manners 
of the Spaniards, of various places, and of 
public events and ceremonies. These de- 
scriptions display considerable judgment 
and quickness of observation, and contain 
some valuable information. Many of the 
anecdotes which occur are highly inter- 
esting, and like every other part of the 
narrative, they are told with a simplicity 
which renders it impossible to doubt their 
accuracy. 



xlii INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. 

At Madrid, Lady Fanshawe gave birth 
to her son Richard ; and the prayer which 
she breathes for his prosperity, exhibits 
her piety and affection in hvely colours. 
Sir Richard Fanshawe went on a mission 
to Lisbon in January 1665, and returned 
to Madrid early in March following. On 
the 17th of December, 1665, he signed 
a treaty with the Spanish minister, but 
as the King refused to ratify it, he was 
recalled, and the Earl of Sandwich was 
sent to replace him, who arrived at Corun- 
na in March following. Previous to this 
circumstance. Lady Fanshawe intended to 
return to England to see her father, who 
was on the verge of the grave ;^ but it ap- 
pears that she then resolved to wait for 
Sir Richard's departure. 

She was now, however, destined to 
experience the severest of all her trials, 

* Page 336. 



INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. xliil 

in the death of her husband, who, after 
introducing Lord Sandwich at Court on 
the 15th of June, was seized with an ague, 
and expired on the 26th of the same 
month.* 

No other language could convey an 
adequate idea of Lady Fanshawe's feel- 
ings under her loss, than that in which 
she has expressed them ; and her address 
to the Almighty on her sufferings, merits 
every possible praise. 

Some of Sir Richard Fanshawe's biogra- 
phers have imputed his death to a broken 
heart, in consequence of his being recall- 
ed ; but this is a gratuitous assertion, for 
nothing of the kind is hinted in the 
Memoir, though the conduct of Lord 
Clarendon and others, towards him is se- 
verely commented upon. His letter to the 

* According to the inscription on his monument, he 
died on the sixteenth of June ; the discrepancy arose 
from the difference in the style. 



xliv INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. 

King on the occasion is preserved,* from 
wliich, it is evident, that he felt his recal 
deeply, but the gracious communication 
by which it was accompanied, lessened the 
severity of the act, and he seems anxiously 
to have looked forward to his arrival in 
England to defend his conduct. 

Lady Fanshawe resolved on accompany- 
ing her husband's corpse to England ; but, 
previous to her quitting Madrid, the Queen- 
Regent of Spain offered her a pension, and 
promised to provide for her children, if 
she and they would embrace the Roman 
Catholic faith ; an offer, which it would be 
an insult to her memory to attribute any 
merit to her for refusing. Having dis- 
posed of her plate, furniture, and horses, 
she left the Siete Chimeneas, in a pri- 
vate manner, on the 8th of July, and 
truly observes, " never did any ambas- 
sador's family come into Spain so glori- 

=* See p. 359. 



INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. xlv 

ously, or went out so sad." She reach- 
ed Bilboa on the 21st of July, where Sir 
Richard's corpse waited her arrival, and 
remained there until the 3rd of October. 
The mournful train then proceeded to- 
wards England, by Bayonne and Paris, 
where they arrived on the 30th of Octo- 
ber. After an audience of the Queen- 
mother, Lady Fanshawe set out for Calais ; 
and on the 2nd of November was con- 
veyed to the Tower Wharf in a French 
vessel-of-war. On the 26th, the body of 
Sir Richard, attended by seven of the 
gentlemen of his suite, was interred in 
AUhallows Church, in Hertford, whence 
it was removed, in May 1671, to a vault 
in St. Mary's Chapel, in Ware Church, 
where his widow erected a handsome mo- 
nument, with the following inscription, to 
his memory : — 

P. M. S. 



xlvi INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. 



P. M. S. 

In Hypogeo, juxta hoc monumentum, 

jacet corpus nobilissimi viri RiCARDi Fanshawe, 

Equitis Aurati et Baronetti, ex antiqu^ ilia familia de 

Ware Parke, in comitatu Hertfordiae, 

Henrici Fanshawe, Equitis Aurati, prohs decimae. 

Uxorem duxit Annam filiam natu raaximam Johannis 

Harrison, Equitis Aurati, de Balls, in com. Hertfordise ; 

et ex ea suscepit sex filios et octo filias ; e quibus 

supersunt Ricardus, Catherina, Margarita, Anna, 

et Eiizabetha. 

Vir comitate morum, luce fidei, constantia, 

prasstantissimus. 

qui olim (laetus exul) serenissimi regis Caroli Secundi 

calamitates fortiter amplexus est, 

in Rebus bellicis, ab eodem constitutus Secretarius, 

posteaque (Regno ei feliciter restaurato) 

libellorum supplicum Magister, 

a Latinis epistolis, a sanctioribus Regis consiliis 

turn Anglise, tum Hiberniae factus ; pro Academic Can- 

tabrigiensi Burgensis ; 

Necnon ejusdem serenissimi regis ad utrasque Aulas 

Portugal, et Hispan. 



INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. xlvii 

Legatus, in quarum proxim^, cum pulcherrime officio 

suo functus esset, splendidissimam quamdiu egerat 

Vitam cum luctuosa niorte commutavit. 

Monumentum hoc, cum Hypogeo, moestissima conjux 

pie posuit, quae etiam corpus Mariti sui ab urbe 

Madrid hue per terras transtulit. 

r^i'.ia.Ji T •• f Dom. M.DCLXVI. 

Obnt l6o de Junii, anno | ^^^^.^ ^^^^ ^^^^ 

These arms occur on the monument : 

Quarterly, 1st and 4th5 Or, a chevron between three 
fleurs-de-lis Sable, Fanshawe ancient, 2nd and Srd, cheeky 
Argent and Azure, a cross Gules, Fanshawe modern , 
an honourable augmentation granted in 1650: on an 
escutcheon in the centre, the arms of Ulster, impaling 
Cheeky, a cross, thereon five pheons' heads, pointing 
upwards. Harrison. Crest, on a wreath, Or and Azure, 
a dragon's head erased Or, vomiting fire. On a label 
under the arms these mottos : "Dux vitae ratio." "In 
Christo victoria."" 

Sir Richard Fanshawe was buried with 
much pomp ; and a full account of the 

* Clutterbuck's History of Hertfordshire, vol. iii. 
page 31 1 . 



xlviii INTRODIU TORY MEMOIll. 

ceremony occurs in his funeral certificate 
in the College of Arms. 

From the King, the Queen, the Court, 
and some of the ministers, Lady Fan- 
shawe received much sympathy and kind- 
ness ; but, in common with every other 
person who had pecuniary claims on the 
Government, she experienced great dif- 
ficulty in procuring the arrears due to her 
husband, and it was not until nearly three 
years that the whole was paid ; by which 
delay, she says, she sustained a loss of 
above two thousand pounds. At the in- 
stigation of Lord Shaftesbury, of whom she 
speaks with the utmost bitterness, she was 
obliged to pay the same amount for the 
plate furnished to the embassy. 

Of the tardy manner in which Sir Ri- 
chard Fanshawe's allowance was paid, and 
the embarrassment into which he was con- 
sequently thrown, he has left ample proof 



INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. xlix 

in his letter to his brother-in-law Sir Philip 
Warwick, dated a few weeks before his 
death ;* in which he tells him that he had 
been obliged to pawn his plate for his sub- 
sistence. 

Lady Fanshawe states in a very feeling 
manner the situation in which she found 
herself after her husband's death; and it 
is scarcely possible to read her allusions 
to his long and faithful services, and the 
heavy sacrifices which he endured, with- 
out admitting the justice of the charge so 
often brought against Charles, of being 
neglectful of his servants. It is, however, 
more than possible that the fault was not 
the monarch's alone : he was surrounded 
by greedy and selfish courtiers, each eager 
to advance his own interest, and pos- 
sessed of similar claims on the ground 
of services ; and as the spoils out of which 

* See page 357. 

d 



1 INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. 

they sought to enrich themselves was 
Hmited, it was an obvious point of pohcy 
to oppose the demands of others. The 
few years which succeeded the Restora- 
tion are among the most disgraceful in 
the annals of this country ; and to the 
evidence which exists of the total want 
of principle which characterised the Court 
of Charles the Second, these Memoirs 
are no slight addition. The Monarch 
was heartless and profligate ; his minis- 
ters, with very few exceptions, were in- 
tent alone on the promotion of their own 
interests ; and services and sufferings were 
nothing in the balance against the influ- 
ence of the royal mistresses. In such a 
state of things, merit availed but little ; 
and with a host of other zealous adherents 
of the royal family, at a time when fidelity 
was attended with the fearful penalties 
attached to high treason, Sir Richard Fan- 



INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. ll 

shawe, after thirty years' devotion to his 
master, and spending a fortune in his 
cause, was sacrificed to the intrigues of his 
enemies, and probably was only spared by 
death from greater mortifications. 

To this outline of the lives of Sir Ri- 
chard and Lady Fanshawe little remains 
to be added. The Memoir, though con- 
tinued to the year 1670, contains very few 
facts after her return to England which are 
deserving of notice. It is manifest that 
her hopes were destroyed, and that her 
only happiness consisted in reflecting on 
the past. Lady Fanshawe's first object 
was to reduce her establishment according 
to her altered fortune, and the second to 
educate her family. In 1670, she lost her 
excellent father, whose death added hea- 
vily to her misfortunes ; but she possessed 
that resource against human woes which 
can only be inspired by a reliance on Him 

d 2 



Hi INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. 

who never deserts the widow and the 
fatherless. Her hfe had been marked by 
extreme vicissitudes; and at its conclu- 
sion — dark and cheerless as it was — she 
wisely looked for consolation where she 
had so frequently found it, and where, it 
may be confidently said, it is never sought 
in vain. 

Of the conduct of Sir Richard Fan- 
shawe, as a servant of the Crown, and as 
a husband and a father, sufficient is said 
in the Memoir ; but it is desirable to no- 
tice his literary labours, which are stated 
in the Biographia Britannica to consist 
of— 

1. An English translation, in rhyme, of 
the celebrated Italian pastoral, called, " II 
Pastor Fido, or, the Faithful Shepherd,'* 
written originally by Battista Guarini. 
Printed at London, 1646, 4to., and in 1664 
8vo. 



INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. lui 

2. Select parts of Horace translated into 
English, 1652, 8vo. 

3. A translation from English into Latin 
verse, of '' The Faithful Shepherdess," a 
pastoral, written originally by John Fletcher. 
London, 1658. 

4. In the octavo edition of '' The Faith- 
ful Shepherdess," Anno 1664, are inserted 
the following poems by Sir Richard : viz. 
1. An Ode upon occasion of his Majesty's 
Proclamation in 1630, commanding the 
gentry to reside upon their estates in the 
country. 2. A summary Discourse on the 
Civil Wars of Rome, extracted from the 
best Latin writers in verse and prose. 3. 
An English translation of the fourth book 
of the iEneid of Virgil or the Loves of 
Dido and iEneas. 4. Two Odes out of 
Horace, relating to the civil wars of Rome, 
against covetous rich men. 

5. He translated, from Portuguese into 



liv INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. 

English, '' The Luciad, or Portugal's 
Historical Poem;" written originally by 
Lues de Camoens. Lond. 1655, &c. fol. 
From the many corrections in the Trans- 
later s copy, in the possession of Edm. 
Turner, Esq. it appears to have been 
very negligently printed, which may in 
some degree account for the remarks of 
Mr. Mickle on Sir Richard's translation. 
After his decease, namely in 1671, were 
published two of his posthumous pieces 
in 4to. Querer per solo querer : " To love 
only for love's sake," a dramatic piece, 
represented before the King and Queen 
of Spain ; and Fiestas de Aranjuez : " Fes- 
vals at Aranjuez;" both written originally 
in Spanish, by Antonio de Mendoza; 
upon occasion of celebrating the birth- 
day of King Philip IV. in 1621, at Aran- 
juez. They were translated by Sir Richard 
in 1654, during his confinement at Tan- 



INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. Iv 

kersley-park, in Yorkshire; which situa- 
tion induced him to write the following 
stanzas : — 

" Time was, when I, a pilgrim of the seas ; 

When I, 'midst noise of camps and court''s disease, 
Purloin'd some hours, to charm rude cares with verse. 
Which flame of faithful shepherd did rehearse. 

** But now, restrain'd from sea, from camp, from court. 
And by a tempest blown into a port, 
I raise my thoughts to muse of higher things. 
And echo arms and loves of queens and kings. 

" Which queens (despising crowns and Hymen's band) 
Would neither man obey, nor man command ; 
Great pleasure from rough seas to see the shore ; 
Or, from firm land, to see the billows roar." 

Sir Richard is also said to have written 
several other articles, which he had not 
leisure to complete ; and that '* some of 
the before mentioned printed pieces have 
not all the perfection which our ingenious 



Ivi INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. 

author could have given them, but that is 
not the case with his excellent translation 
of Pastor Fido."^ 

That translation is highly compliment- 
ed by Denham, who observes, 

" Such is our pride, or folly, or our fate. 

That few but such as cannot write translate." 

And after censuring servile translators, he 
says — 

" Secure of fame, thou justly dost esteem 
Less honour to create than to redeem ; 
That servile path thou nobly dost decline. 
Of tracing word by word, and line by line.'' 

And, 

" That master's hand, which to the life can trace 
The air, the line, the features, of the face, 
May with a free and bolder stroke express, 
A varied posture, or a flattVing dress ; 
He could have made those like, who made the rest, 
But that he knew his own design was best." 

* Biographia Britannica. 



INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. Ivii 

Part of Sir Richard Fanshawe's official 
correspondence, during his embassies in 
Spain and Portugal, was published in 
1701, from which many extracts have been 
printed at the end of this volume ; but the 
latest letter therein is dated 26th January, 
1665. The rough copies of his correspon- 
dence from that time until his death, are 
preserved in the Harleian MS. 7010, in 
the British Museum, the most interesting 
part of which will be found added to the 
other extracts. 

Lady Fanshawe wrote her Memoir in 
the year 1676, and died on the 20th Ja- 
nuary, 1679-80, in her fifty-fifth year. 
Her will is dated on the 30th October, 
31st Car. II. 1679, in which she desired 
that her body might be privately buried in 
the Chapel of St. Mary, in Ware Church, 
close to her husband, in the vault which 
she had purchased of the Bishop of Lon- 



Iviii INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. 

don. She ordered her house in Little 
Grove, in East Barnet, with all the jewels, 
plate, and pictures therein, to be sold. 
To her son, Sir Richard Fanshawe, she be- 
queathed the lease of the manor of Faun- 
ton Hall, in Essex, which she held of the 
Bishop of London, on condition, that when 
he possessed his office in the Custom- 
House, or any other employment of the 
value of 500/. per annum, he should pay 
to his eldest sister Katherine 1200/., or de- 
liver up the said lease to her. She also 
left him her own and her husband's pic- 
ture set in gold, his father's picture by 
Lilly, and her own by Toniars,* with all her 
seals, particularly a gold ring, with an 
onyx-stone, engraved, her purse of medals, 
all the gold she had by her at the time of 
her death, a Spanish towel, and comeing- 

* Query, Teniers. 



INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. lix 

cloth, together with all the books, MSS., 
writings, &c., sticks, guns, swords, and 
turning instruments, which belonged to 
her late husband. To her daughter, Ka- 
therine Fanshawe, she left 600/., of which 
sum 500/. were given her by her grand- 
father. Sir John Harrison, at his decease, a 
warrant for a Baronet, and all her jewels. 
To her daughters Ann Fanshawe and Eliza- 
beth Fanshawe 600/. each, of which sums 
500/. were given to each of them by their 
said grandfather. To her daughter Ka- 
therine she bequeathed the Work zoritten 
by herself, by her said daughter Katherine^ 
or by her sisters. She requested that her 
son Sir Richard and her three daughters 
would wear mourning for three years after 
her decease, namely, mourning with plain 
linen, excepting either of them married in 
the mean time; and she appointed her 
eldest daughter Katherine her sole exe- 



Ix INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR* 

cutrix, who proved her Will on the 6th 
February, 1679-80. 

Of her numerous children, the following 
particulars have been gleaned from her 
memoir and other sources. 

1. Harrison, born in the parish of St. 
John's, Oxford, 22nd February, 1644-5, 
and was there buried in the same year. 

2. Henry, born in Portugal Row, Lin- 
coln's Inn Fields, London, 30th July, 1647, 
died on the 20th October, 1650, and was 
buried in the Protestant burying-ground at 
Paris. 

3. Richard, born 8th June, 1648, died 
before October, 1650. 

4. Henry, born in November, 1657, and 
dying in the same year, was buried in 
Bengy Church, in Hertfordshire. 

5. Richard, born at Lisbon, 26th June, 
1663 : he lived a few hours only, and was 
there buried in the Esperanza. 



INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. Ixi 

6. Richard, born at Madrid, 6th Au- 
gust, 1665, to whom the Memoir was ad- 
dressed. He succeeded his father in 1666, 
and became the second Baronet. He is 
said to have been deprived of his hearing, 
and at length of his speech, in consequence 
of a fever, and to have died unmarried 
about 1695,* when the Baronetcy became 
extinct. 

The daughters were 

1. Anne, born at Jersey, 7th June, 
1646 ; died at Tankersley Park in York- 
shire, 20th July, 1654, and was buried in 
the Parish Church of Tankersley. 

2. Elizabeth, born at Madrid, 13th July, 
1649 ; died a few days afterwards, and was 
buried in the Chapel of the French Hos- 
pital at Madrid. 

3. Elizabeth, born 24th June, 1650; 

* Le Neve's MSS. in the College of Arms. 



Ixii 



INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. 



died at Foot's Cray, in Kent, in July, 1656, 
and was there bvn'ied. 

4. Katiierine, born 30th July, 1652, 
and was living, and unmarried, in May, 
1705. 

5. Margaret, born at Tankersley Park, 
in Yorkshire, 8th October, 1653, married, 
before 1676, Vincent Grantham, of Goltho, 
in Lincolnshire, Esq. It is remarkable 
that she is not mentioned in her mother's 
will. She was living, and the wife or 
widow of Mr. Grantham, in May, 1705. 

6. Ann, born at Frog Pool, in Kent, 
22nd February, 1654-5, unmarried Octo- 
ber, 1679; but afterwards married — 
Ryder, by whom she had a daughter, 
Anne Lawrence, who, with her mother, 
were living in May, 1705. 

7. Mary, born in London, 12th July, 
1656 ; died in August, 1660, and was bu- 
ried in All Saints' Church, Hertford. 



INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR. ^^^^^ 



8. Elizabeth, born 22nd February, 
1662, living 1676 ; but as she is not men- 
tioned in her mother's will, or afterwards, 
it may perhaps be inferred that she died 
before 1680. 

Although some trouble has been taken 
to trace the descendants of Sir Richard 
and Lady Fanshawe, all which has been 
discovered is, that their daughters be- 
came their co-heirs about 1695; that Sir 
Edmund Turner, the husband of Lady 
Fanshawe's sister, in his will, dated 15th 
May, 1705, and proved in 1708, mentions 
his nieces Fanshawe, Grantham, and niece 
Anne Fanshaw^e, alias Ryder, and Ann 
Laurence, daughter of his niece Ryder; 
and that the MS. from which this vo- 
lume is printed, is said to have been 
transcribed in 1676, by Lady Fanshawe's 
" great grand- daughter, Charlotte Col- 
man/' 



\' 



MEMOIRS 



OF 



LADY FANSHAWE, 



I HAVE thought it good to discourse to 
you, my most dear and only son, the most 
remarkable actions and accidents of your 
family, as well as those more eminent 
ones of your father; and my life and neces- 
sity, not delight or revenge, hath made me 
insert some passages which will reflect on 
their owners, as the praises of others will be 
but just, which is my intent in this narrative. 

B 



2 MEMOIRS OF 

I would not have ^^ou be a stranger to it ; 
because, by the example, you may imitate 
what is applicable to your condition in the 
world, and endeavour to avoid those mis- 
fortunes we have passed through, if God 
pleases. 

Endeavour to be innocent as a dove, but 
as wise as a serpent ; and let this lesson 
direct you most in the greatest extremes of 
fortune. Hate idleness, and curb all pas- 
sions ; be true in all words and actions ; un- 
necessarily deliver not your opinion ; but 
when you do, let it be just, well-considered, 
and plain. Be charitable in all thought, 
word, and deed, and ever ready to forgive 
injuries done to yourself, and be more pleased 
to do good than to receive good. 

Be civil and obliging to all, dutiful where 
God and nature command you ; but friend 
to one, and that friendship keep sacred, as 
the greatest tie upon earth, and be sure to 



LADY FANSHAWE, 



ground it upon virtue ; for no other is either 
happy or lasting. 

Endeavour always to be content in that 
estate of life which it hath pleased God to 
call you to, and think it a great fault not 
to employ your time, either for the good of 
your soul, or improvement of your under- 
standing, health, or estate ; and as these are 
the most pleasant pastimes, so it will make 
you a cheerful old age, which is as neces- 
sary for you to design, as to make provision 
to support the infirmities which decay of 
strength brings : and it was never seen that 
a vicious youth terminated in a contented, 
cheerful old age, but perished out of coun- 
tenance. Ever keep the best qualified per- 
sons company, out of whom you will find 
advantage, and reserve some hours daily to 
examine yourself and fortune ; for if you 
embark yourself in perpetual conversation 
or recreation, you will certainly shipwreck 

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4 MEMOIRS OF 

your inind and fortune. Remember the 
proverb — such as his company is, such is 
the man, and have glorious actions before 
your eyes, and think what shall be your 
portion in Heaven, as well as what you 
desire on earth. 

Manage your fortune prudently, and for- 
get not that you must give God an account 
hereafter, and upon all occasions. 

Remember your father, whose true image, 
though I can never draw to the life, unless 
God will grant me that blessing in you ; 
yet, because you were but ten months and 
ten days old when God took him out of this 
world, I will, for your advantage, show you 
him with all truth, and without partiaUty. 

He was of the highest size of men, strong, 
and of the best proportion.; his complexion 
sanguine, his skin exceedingly fair, his hair 
dark brown and very curling, but not very 
long ; his eyes grey and penetrating, his nose 



LADY FANSHAWE. 5 

high, his countenance gracious and wise, his 
motion good, his speech clear and distinct* 
He never used exercise but walking, and that 
generally wath some book in his hand, which 
oftentimes was poetry, in which he spent 
his idle hours ; sometimes he would ride out 
to take the air, but his most delight was, 
to go only with me in a coach some miles, 
and there discourse of those things which 
then most pleased him, of what nature 
soever. 

He w^as very obliging to all, and forward 
to serve his master, his country, and friend ; 
cheerful in his conversation ; his discourse 
ever pleasant, mixed with the sayings of 
wise men, and their histories repeated as 
occasion offered, yet so reserved that he 
never showed the thought of his heart, in 
its greatest sense, but to myself only ; and 
this, I thank God, w^ith all my soul for, that 
he never discovered his trouble to me, but 



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went from me with perfect cheerfulness and 
content; nor revealed he his joys and hopes, 
but would say, that they were doubled by 
putting them in my breast. I never heard 
him hold disputation in my life, but often 
he would speak against it, saying, it was 
an uncharitable custom, which never turned 
to the advantage of either party. He would 
never be drawn to the fashion of any party, 
saying, he found it sufficient honestly to per- 
form that employment he was in : he loved 
and used cheerfulness in all his actions, and 
professed his religion in his life and con- 
versation. He was a true Protestant of the 
Church of England, so born, so brought up, 
and so died ; his conversation was so honest 
that I never heard him speak a word in my 
life that tended to God's dishonour, or 
encouragement of any kind of debauchey 
or sin. He was ever much esteemed by his 
two masters, Charles the First and Charles 



LADY FANSHAWE. 7 

the Second, both for great parts and ho- 
nesty, as for his conversation, in which 
they took great dehght, he being so free 
from passion, that made him beloved of all 
that knew him, nor did I ever see him 
moved but with his mastery's concerns^ in 
which he would hotly pursue his interest 
through the greatest difficulties. 

He was the tenderest father imaginable, 
the carefuUest and most generous master I 
ever knew ; he loved hospitality, and would 
often say, it was wholly essential for th^ 
constitution of England : he loved and kept 
order with the greatest decency possible ; 
and though he would say I managed his 
domestics wholly, yet I ever governed them 
and myself by his commands ; in the ma- 
naging of which, I thank God, I found his 
approbation and content. 

Now you will expect that I should say 
something that may remain of us jointly, 



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which I will do though it makes my eyes 
gush out with tears, and cuts me to the soul 
to remember, and in part express the joys I 
was blessed with in him. Glory be to God, 
we never had but one mind throughout 
our lives. Our souls were wrapt up in each 
others ; our aims and designs one, our 
loves one, and our resentments one. We so 
studied one the other, that we knew each 
others mind by our looks. Whatever was 
real happiness, God gave it me in him ; 
but to commend my better half, which I 
want sufficient expression for, methinks is 
to commend myself, and so may bear a 
censure ; but might it be permitted I could 
dwell eternally on his praise most justly ; but 
thus without offence I do, and so you may- 
imitate him in his patience, his prudence, 
his chastity, his charity, his generosity, his 
perfect resignation to God's will, and praise 



LADY FANSHAWE. 9 

God for him as long as you live here, and 
with him hereafter in the Kingdom of 
Heaven. Amen. 

Your father was born in Ware Park, in 
the month of June, in the year of our 
Lord 1608, and was the tenth child of Sir 
Henry Fanshawe, whose father bought Ten 
in Essex, and Ware Park, in Hertfordshire. 
This your great-grandfather came out of 
Derbyshire from a small estate, Fanshawe- 
Gate being the principal part that then this 
family had, which exceeded not above two 
hundred pounds a year, and about so much 
more they had in the town and parish of 
Dronfield, within two miles of Fanshawe- 
Gate, where the family had been some hun- 
dreds of years, as appears by the church of 
Dronfield, in the chancel of which church 
I have seen several grave-stones with the 
names of that family, many of them very 



10 MEMOIRS OF 

ancient ; and the chancel which is very old, 
was and is kept wholly for a burying-place 
for that family. 

There is in the town a free school, with 
a very good house and noble endownnent 
founded by your great-grandfather, who was 
sent for to London in Henry the Eighth ^s 
time, by an uncle of his, and of his own 
name, to be brought up a clerk under his 
uncle Thomas Fanshawe, who procured your 
great-grandfather's life to be put with his 
in the patent of remembrances of his Ma- 
jesty's Exchequer, which place he enjoyed 
after the death of his uncle, he having left 
no male issue, only two daughters, who had 
both great fortunes in land and money, and 
married into the best families in Essex in 
that time. This was the rise of your great- 
grandfather, who, with his office and his 
Derbyshire estate, raised the family to what 
it hath been and now is. He had one only 



LADY FANSHAWE. 11 

brother, Robert Fanshawe, who had a good 
estate in Derbyshire, and Hved in Fanshawe- 
Gate, which he hired of his eldest brother, 
your great-grandfather. 

In this house my mother was born, 
Margaret, the eldest daughter of Robert, 
your great-great uncle : he married one of the 
daughters of Rowland Eyes, of Bradway, in 
the same county of Derby, by whom he had 
twelve sons and two daughters : that family- 
remains in Dronfield to this day. 

Your great-grandfather, married Alice 
Bourchier, of the last Earl of Bath's family, by 
whom he had only one son that lived, Henry, 
which was your grandfather ; afterwards 
when he had been two years a widower, he 
married one of the daughters of Customer 
Smith, who had six sons and six daughters : 
his sons were Sir John Smith, Sir Thomas 
Smith, Sir Richard Smith, Sir Robert Smith, 
Mr. WilUam Smith, and Mr. Edward Smith, 



12 MEMOIRS OF 

who died young: two were knighted by 
Queen Ehzabeth, and two by King James ; 
the eldest was grandfather of the now Lord 
Strano;ford; the second had been several 
times ambassador, and all married into 
good families and left great estates to their 
posterity, which remain to this day. The 
daughters were Mrs. Fanshawe, your great- 
grandmother-in-law ; the second married 
Sir John Scott, of Kent ; the third married 
Sir John Davies, of the same county ; the 
fourth married Sir Robert Poynz, of Leices- 
tershire ; the fifth married Thomas Butler, 
of Harald, Esq., and the sixth married Sir 
Henry Fanshawe, your grandfather ; these 
all left a numerous posterity but Davies, 
and this day they are matched into very 
considerable families. 

Your great-grandfather had by his second 
wife, Sir Thomas Fanshawe, Clerk of the 
Crown, and Surveyor-General of King 



LADY FANSHAWE. 13 

James ; to him he gave his manors of 
Jenkins, in Essex, valued at near two thou- 
sand a year. 

His second son by the same wife, Wilham, 
he procured to be auditor of the Duchy, 
whose posterity hath in Essex, at Parsels, 
about seven or eight hundred pounds a year. 
His eldest daughter married Sir Christopher 
Hatton, heir to the Lord Chancellor Hatton; 
his second married Sir Benjamin Ayloffe, of 
Brackstead, in Essex ; the third married Mr. 
Bullock Hardine, in Derbyshire ; all men 
of very great estate;^. As your grand-father 
inherited Ware Park and his office, the flower 
of his father's estate, so did he of his wis- 
dom and parts ; and both were happy in the 
favour of the princes of that time, for Queen 
Elizabeth said that your grandfather was the 
best officer of accounts she had, and a person 
of great integrity ; and your grandfather was 
the favourite of Prince Henry, and had the 



14 MEMOIRS OF 

Prince lived to be King, had been Secretary 
of State, as he would often tell him. Mr. 
Camden speaks much in praise, as you may 
see, of Sir Henry Fanshawe's garden, of Ware 
Park, none excelling it in flowers, physic 
herbs, and fruit, in which things he did 
greatly delight ; also he was a great lover 
of music, and kept many gentlemen that 
were perfectly well qualified both in that 
and the Italian tongue, in which he spent 
some time. He likewise kept several horses 
of manege, and rid them himself, which he 
delighted in, and the prince would say none 
did it better ; he had great honour and ge- 
nerosity in his nature, and to show you a little 
part of which I will tell you this of him : he 
had a horse that the then Earl of Exeter was 
much pleased with, and Sir Henry esteemed, 
because he deserved it. My Lord, after 
some apology, desired Sir Henry to let him 
have his horse and he would give him what 



LADY FANSIIAWE. 15 

he would ; he rephed, my Lord I have no 
thoughts of selhng him but to serve you ; I 
bought him of such a person, and gave so 
much for him, and that shall be my price to 
you as I paid, being sixty pieces ; my Lord 
Exetersaid that's too much, buti will give you, 
Sir Henry, fifty, to which he made no answer ; 
next day my Lord sent a gentleman with 
sixty pieces, Sir Henry naade answer, that 
was the price he paid and once had offered 
him, my Lord at, but not being accepted, 
his price now was eighty ; at the receiving of 
this answer my Lord Exeter stormed, and 
sent his servant back with seventy pieces. Sir 
Henry said, that since my Lord would not 
like him at eighty pieces, he would not sell 
him under a hundred pieces, and if he re- 
turned with less he would not sell him at 
all ; upon which ray Lord Exeter sent one 
hundred pieces and had the horse. His re- 
tinue was great, and that made him stretch 



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his estate, which was near if not full four 
thousand pounds a year ; yet when he died, 
he left no debt upon his estate. He depart- 
ed this life at the age of forty-eight years, 
and lies buried in the chancel, in a vault 
with his father in the parish church of 
Ware ; he was as handsome and as fine a 
gentleman as England then had, a most 
excellent husband, father, friend, and ser- 
vant to his Prince. He left in the care of 
my lady his widow, five sons and five 
daughters ; his eldest son succeeded him in 
his lands and office, and after the restora- 
tion of the King, he was made Lord Vis- 
count of Dromore in Ireland ; he did en- 
gage his person and estate for the crown, 
and fought in the battle of Edgehill, and 
this ruined his estate, and was the cause 
of his sons selling Ware Park ; afterwards 
he tried, by the King's assistance, to be 
reimbursed, but could not prevail. He was 



LADY FANSHAWE. 17 

a very M^orthy, valiant, honest, good-natured 
gentleman, charitable and generous, and 
had excellent natural parts, yet choleric and 
rash, which was only incommode to his 
own family ; he was a very pretty man, for 
he was but low, of a sanguine complexion, 
much a gentleman in his mien and language ; 
he was sixty-nine years of age when he died, 
and is buried with his ancestors in Ware 
Church. 

He married first the daughter of Sir Giles 
Allington, by whom he hath a daughter 
called Ann, who remains a maid to this 
day ; his second wife was Elizabeth, daugh- 
ter to Sir William Cockain, Lord Mayor 
of London. She was a very good wife, 
but not else qualified extraordinary in any 
thing. She brought him many children, 
whereof now remain three sons and five 
daughters. 

Thomas, Lord Viscount Fanshawe, his 
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eldest son, died in May 1674; he was a 
handsome gentleman, of an excellent un- 
derstanding, and great honour and honesty. 
He married the daughter and sole heir 
of Knitton Ferrers of Bedford-bury, in the 
county of Hertford, Esq., by whom he 
had no child. After his father's death he 
married the daughter of Sir John Evelyn, 
widow to Sir John Wrey, of Lincolnshire; 
by this wife he had several children, of 
which only two survived him, Thomas, now 
Lord Viscount Fanshawe, and Catherine. 
His widow is lately married unto my Lord 
Castleton, of Senbeck, in Yorkshire. He 
lies buried with his ancestors in the Parish 
Church of Ware. Your uncle Henry, that 
was the second son, was killed in fighting 
gallantly in the Low Countries with English 
colours in his hand. He was very hand- 
some and a very brave man, beloved and 
lamented by all who knew him. The third 



LADY FANSHAWE. J 9 

died a batchelor ; I knew him not. The 
fourth is Sir Simon Fanshawe, a gallant 
gentleman, but more a libertine than any 
of his family ; he married a very fine and 
good woman, and of a great estate ; she 
was daughter and coheir to Sir William 
Walter, and widow to Knitton Ferrers, son 
to Sir John Ferrers, of Hertfordshire. 

Your father, Sir Richard Fanshawe, 
Knight and Baronet, one of the Masters of 
the Requests, Secretary of the Latin Tongue, 
Burgess for the University of Cambridge, 
and one of his Majesty's most honourable 
Privy Council of England and Ireland, and 
his Majesty's Ambassador to Portugal and 
Spain, was the fifth and youngest son. He 
married me, the eldest daughter of Sir John 
Harrison, Knight, of Balls, in the county 
of Hertford ; he was married at thirty-five 
years of age, and lived with me twenty- 
three years and twenty-nine days ; he lies 

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20 MEMOIRS OF 

buried iii a new vault I purchased of 
Humphry, Lord Bishop of London, in 
St. Mary's Chapel in the Church of Ware, 
near his ancestors, over which I built him a 
monument. 

My dear husband had six sons and eight 
daughters, born and christened, and I mis- 
carried of six more, three at several times, 
and once of three sons when I was about 
half gone my time. Harrison, my eldest 
son, and Henry, my second son ; Richard, 
my third; Henry, my fourth; and Richard, 
my fifth, are all dead ; my second lies buried 
in the Protestant Church-yard in Paris, by 
the father of the Earl of Bristol ; my eldest 
daughter Ann lies buried in the Parish 
Church of Tankersley, in Yorkshire, where 
she died ; EHzabeth lies in the Chapel of 
the French Hospital at Madrid, where she 
died of a fever at ten days old ; my next 
daughter of her name lies buried in the 



LADY FANSHAWE. 21 

Parish of Foot's Cray, in Kent, near Frog- 
Pool, my brother Warwick's house, where 
she died ; and my daughter Mary hes 
in my father's vault in Hertford, with my 
first son Henry ; my eldest lies buried in 
the Parish Church of St. John's College in 
Oxford, where he was born ; my second 
Henry lies in Bengy Church, in Hertford- 
shire ; and my second Richard in the Espe- 
ranza in Lisbon in Portugal, he being born 
ten weeks before my time when I was in 
that Court. I praise God I have living 
yourself and four sisters, Catherine unmar- 
ried, Margaret married to Vincent Grantham, 
Esq. of Goultho, in the county of Lincoln, 
Ann, and Elizabeth. 

Now I have shown you the most part 
of your family by the male line, except Sir 
Thomas Fanshawe, of Jenkins, who has but 
one child, and that a daughter, and two 
brothers, both unmarried. Their father as 



'22 IVIKMOIUS OF 

well as themselves was a worthy honest gen- 
tleman and a great sufferer for the crown, 
wholly engaging his estate for the mainte- 
nance thereof; and so is my cousin John 
Fanshawe, of Papelews, in Essex, who hath 
but two sons, one unmarried by his first 
wife, who was the daughter of Sir WiUiam 
Kingsmill ; and the other is a child whom 
he had by his last wife, the daughter of my 
cousin, Thomas Fanshawe, of Jenkins. 

I confess I owe Sir Thomas Fanshawe as 
good a character as I can express, for he 
fully deserves it, both for his true honours 
and most excellent acquired and natural 
parts ; and that which is of me most 
esteemed, he was your father's intimate 
friend as well as near kinsman ; and during 
the time of the war he was very kind to us, 
by assisting us in our wants, which were 
as great as his supports ; which, though, I 
thank God, I have fully repaid, yet must 



LADY FANSHAWE. 23 

ever remain obliged for his kindness and tlie 
esteem he hath for us. 

He married the daughter and heir of Sir 
Edward Heath, a pretty lady and a good 
woman ; but I must here with thankfulness 
acknowledge God's bounty to your family, 
who hath bestowed most excellent wives on 
most of them, both in person and fortune; 
but with respect to the rest, I must give with 
all reverence justly your grandmother the 
first and best place, who being left a widow 
at thirty-nine years of age, handsome, with 
a full fortune, all her children provided for, 
kept herself a widow, and out of her join- 
ture and revenue purchased six hundred 
pounds a year for the younger childi^en of 
her eldest son ; besides, she added five hun- 
dred pounds a piece to the portions of her 
younger children — having nine, whereof but 
one daughter was married before the death 
af Sir Henrv Fanshawe, and she was the 



24 MEMOIUJS OF 

second, her name was Mary, nnarried to 
William News, Esq., of Hadham, in Hert- 
fordshire ; the eldest daughter married Sir 
Capell Bedells, of Hammerton, in Hunting- 
donshire ; the third never married; the 
fourth married Sir William Boteler, of Tesin, 
in Kent ; the fifth died young. Thus you 
have been made acquainted with most of 
your nearest relations by your father, except 
your cousins german, which are the three 
sons of your uncle, Lord Fanshawe, and Wil- 
liam News, Esq., and his two brothers, and 
Sir Oliver Boteler, and my Lady Camden, 
three maiden sisters of hers, and my Lady 
Levingthorpe, of Blackware, in Hertford- 
shire. There was more, but they are dead ; 
and so are the most part of them I have 
named, but their memories will remain as 
long as their names, for honest, worthy, vir- 
tuous men and women, who served God in 
their generations in their several capacities, 



LADY FANSHAWE. 25 

and without vanity none exceeded them in 
their loyalty, which cost them dear, for there 
were as many fathers, sons, uncles, nephews, 
and cousins german, and those that matched 
to them, engaged and sequestered for the 
crown in the time of the late rebellion as 
their revenue made nearly eighty thousand 
pounds a year, and this I have- often seen a 
list of and know it to be true. 

The use of which to you is, that you should 
not omit your duty to your king and coun- 
try, nor be less in your industry to exceed 
at least, not shame, the excellent memory of 
your ancestors. They were all eminent offi- 
cers; and that, I believe, keeping them ever 
employed made them so good men. I hope 
in God the like parallel wdll be in you, which 
I heartily and daily pray for. 

I was born in St. Olaves, Hart-street, Lon- 
don, in a house that my father took of the 
Lord Dingwall, father to the now Duchess of 



26 MEMOIRS OF 

Ormond, in the year 1625, on our Lady 
Day, 2oth of March. Mr. Hyde, Lady Al- 
ston, and Lady Wolstenholme, were my 
godfather and godmothers. In that house I 
lived the winter times till I was fifteen years 
old and three months, with my ever honoured 
and most dear mother, who departed this life 
on the 20th day of July, 1640, and now lies 
buried in Hallo wes Church, in Hertford. 
Her funeral cost my father above a thou- 
sand pounds ; and Dr. Howlsworth preached 
her funeral sermon, in which, upon his own 
knowledge, he told before many hundreds 
of people this accident following : that my 
mother, being sick to death of a fever three 
months after I was born, which was the 
occasion she gave me suck no longer, her 
friends and servants thought to all outward 
appearance that she was dead, and so lay 
almost two days and a night, but Dr. Win- 
ston coming to comfort my father, went into 



LADY FANSIIAWE. 27 

my mother's room, and looking earnestly on 
her face, said she was so handsome, and now 
looks so lovely, I cannot think she is dead ; 
and suddenly took a lancet out of his pocket 
and with it cut the sole of her foot, which 
bled. Upon this, he immediately caused 
her to be laid upon the bed again and to be 
rubbed, and such means as she came to life, 
and opening her eyes, saw two of her kins- 
women stand by her, my Lady Knollys 
and my Lady Russell, both with great wide 
sleeves, as the fashion then was, and said. 
Did not you promise me fifteen years, and 
are you comie again ? which they not under- 
standing, persuaded her to keep her spirits 
quiet in that great weakness wherein she 
then was ; but some hours after she desired 
my father and Dr. Howlsworth might be 
left alone with her, to whom she said, I 
will acquaint you, that during the time of 
my trance I was in great quiet, but in a 



28 MEMOIRS OF 

place I could neither distinguish nor de- 
scribe; but the sense of leaving my girl, 
who is dearer to me than all my children, 
remained a trouble upon my spirits. Sud- 
denly I saw two by me, cloathed in long 
white garments, and me thought I fell down 
with my face in the dust ; and they asked 
why I was troubled in so great happiness. 
I replied, O let me have the same grant 
given to Hezekiah, that I may live fifteen 
years, to see my daughter a woman : to 
which they answered, It is done ; and then, 
at that instant, I awoke out of my trance ; 
and Dr. Howlsworth did there affirm, that 
that day she died made just fifteen years 
from that time. My dear mother was of 
excellent beauty and good understanding, a 
loving wife, and most tender mother ; very 
pious, and charitable to that degree, that 
she relieved, besides the offals of the table, 
which she constantly gave to the poor, many 



LADY FANSHAWE. 29 

with her own hand daily out of her purse, 
and dressed many wounds of miserable peo- 
ple, when she had health, and when that 
failed, as it did often, she caused her ser- 
vants to supply that place. 

She left behind her three sons, all much 
older than myself. The eldest, John, mar- 
ried three wives : by his last, who was the 
daughter of Mr. Ludlow, a very ancient and 
noble family, he left tw^o daughters, who 
are both unmarried. My second brother, 
William, died at Oxford with a bruise on 
his side, caused by the fall of his horse, 
which was shot under him, as he went out 
with a party of horse against a party of the 
Earl of Essex, in 1643. He was a very good 
and gallant young man ; and they are the 
very words the king said of him, when he was 
told of his death : he was much lamented 
by all who knew him. The third, Abraham, 
hath left no issue; I was the fourth, and my 



30 MEMOIRS OF 

sister Margaret, the fifth, who married Sir 
Edmund Turner, of South Stock, in Lin- 
cohishire, a worthy pious man. 

My father, in his old age, married again, 
the daughter of Mr. Shatbolt, of Hertford- 
shire, and had by her a son, Richard, and a 
daughter, Mary. The son married the eld- 
est daughter of the now Lord Grandison, and 
the daughter married the eldest son of Sir 
Rowland Litton, of Knebworth, in Hertford- 
shire. My father lived to see them both 
married ; and enjoyed a firm health until 
above eighty years of age. He was a hand- 
some gentleman of great natural parts, a 
great accomptant, vast memory, an incom- 
parable penman, of great integrity and ser- 
vice to his prince ; had been a member of 
several Parliaments ; a good husband and 
father, especially to me, who never can suf- 
ficiently praise God for him, nor acknow- 
ledge his most tender affection and bounty 
to me and mine ; but as in duty bound, I 



LADY FANSHAWE. 31 

will for ever say, none had ever a kinder and 
better father than myself. He died on the 
28th day of September, 1670; and lies 
buried by my mother in his own vault in 
Allhallows Church, in Hertford. 

My father was born at Bemond, in Lan- 
cashire ; the twelfth son of his father, whose 
mother was the daughter of Mr. Hiessom, 
cousin german to the old Countess of 
Rivers. I have little knowledge of my 
father's relations more than the families of 
Aston, Irland, Sandis, Bemond, and Curwin, 
who brought him to London and placed 
him with my Lord Treasurer Salisbury, then 
Secretary of State, who sent him into Sir 
John Wolstenholm's family, and gave him a 
small place in the Custom-house, to enable 
him for the employment. He being of good 
parts and capacity in some time raised him- 
self, by God's help, to get a very great estate, 
for I have often heard him say that, be- 
sides his education, he never had but twenty 



32 MEMOIRS OF 

marks, which his father gave him when he 
came to London, and that was all he ever 
had for a portion. He made it appear with 
great truth that, during the time of the 
w^ar, he lost by the rebels above one hun- 
dred and thirty thousand pounds, and yet 
he left his son sixteen hundred pounds a 
year in land, and gave his daughter above 
tw^enty thousand pounds. 

Now it is necessary to say something of 
my mother's education of me, which was 
with all the advantages that time aftbrded, 
both for working all sorts of fine w^orks with 
my needle, and learning French, singing, 
lute, the virginals and dancing, and not- 
withstanding I learned as well as most did, 
yet was I wild to that degree, that the hours 
of my beloved recreation took up too much 
of my time, for I loved riding in the first 
place, running, and all active pastimes : in 
short, I was that which we graver people 



I.ADY FANSHAWE. 33 

call a hoyting girl ; but to be just to myself, 
I never did mischief to myself or people, 
nor one immodest word or action in my life, 
though skipping and activity was my delight, 
but upon my mother's death, I then began 
to reflect, and, as an offering to her memory, 
I flung away those httle childnesses that 
had formerly possessed me, and, by my 
fether's command, took upon me charge of 
his house and family, which I so ordered 
by my excellent mother's example as found 
acceptance in his sight. I was very well be- 
loved by all our relations and my mother^s 
friends, whom I paid a great respect to, and 
I ever was ambitious to keep the best com- 
pany, which I have done, I thank God, all 
the days of my life. My father and mother 
were both great lovers and honourers of 
clergymen, but all of Cambridge, and chiefly 
Doctor Bamberge, Doctor Howlsworth, 
Broanbricke, Walley, and Mickelthite, and 

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34 MEMOIRS OF 

Sanderson, with many others. We Uved 
in great plenty and hospitality, but no la- 
vishness in the least, nor prodigality, and, I 
believe, my father never drank six glasses 
of wine in his life in one day. 

About 16'41, my brother, William Harri- 
son, w^as chosen Burgess of , and sat in 

the Commons^ House of Parliament, but not 
long, for when the King set up his standard 
he went with him to Nottingham; yet he, 
during his sitting, undertook that my father 
should lend one hundred and fifty thousand 
pounds to pay the Scots^ who had then entered 
England, and, as it seems, were to be both 
paid and prayed to go home, but after- 
wards their plague infected the whole na- 
tion, as to all our sorrows we know, and 
that debt of my father's remained to him 
until the restoration of the King. In 
1642 my father was taken prisoner at his 
house, called Montague House, in Bishop- 



LADY F ANSI! AWE. 35 

gate Street, and threatened to be sent on 
board a sliip with many more of his qua- 
lity, and then they plundered his house, 
but he getting loose, under pretence to 
fetch some writings they demanded in his 
hands concerning the public revenue, he 
went to Oxford in 1643, and thereupon 
the long Parliament, of which he was 
a member for the town of Lancaster, plun- 
dered him out of what remained, and se- 
questered his whole estate, which continued 
out of his possession until the happy res- 
toration of the King. 

My father commanded my sister and 
myself to come to him to Oxford, where 
the Court then was, but we, that had till 
that hour lived in great plenty and great 
order, found ourselves like fishes out of 
the water, and the scene so changed, that 
we knew not at all how to act any part but 
obedience, for, from as good a house as 

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36 MEMOIRS OF 

any gentleman of England had, we came 
to a baker's house in an obscure street, and 
from rooms well furnished, to lie in a very 
bad bed in a garret, to one dish of meat, 
and that not the best ordered, no money, 
for we were as poor as Job, nor clothes more 
than a man or two brought in their cloak 
bags : we had the perpetual discourse of 
losing and gaining towns and men ; at the 
windows the sad spectacle of M^ar, some- 
times plague, sometimes sicknesses of other 
kind, by reason of so many people being 
packed together, as, I believe, there never 
was before of that quality ; always in want, 
yet I must needs say that most bore it with 
a martyr-like cheerfulness. For my own part, 
I began to think we should all, like Abra- 
ham, live in tents all the days of our lives. 
The King sent my father a warrant for a 
baronet, but he returned it with thanks, 
saying he had too much honour of his 



LADY FANSHAWE. 37 

knighthood which his Majesty had honoured 
him with some years before, for the fortune 
he now possessed, but as in a rock the tur- 
bulence of the waves disperses the spUnters 
of the rock, so it was my lot, for having 
buried my dear brother, William Harrison, 
in Exeter College Chapel, I then married 
your dear father in 1644 in Wolvercot 
Church, two miles from Oxford, upon the 
18th day of May. None was at our wed- 
ding but my dear father, who, at my mo- 
therms desire, gave me her wedding-ring, 
with which I was married, and my sister 
Margaret, and my brother and sister Boteler, 
Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Lord Chan- 
cellor, and Sir GeofFery Palmer, the King's 
Attorney. Before I was married, my hus- 
band was sworn Secretary of War to the 
Prince, now our King, with a promise from 
Charles I. to be preferred as soon as occasion 
offered it, but both his fortune and my 



38 MEMOIRS OF 

promised portion, which was made 10,000/., 
were both at that time in expectation, and we 
might truly be called merchant adventu- 
rers, for the stock we set up our trading with 
did not amount to twenty pounds betwixt 
us; but, however, it was to us as a little 
piece of armour is against a bullet, which 
if it be right placed, though no bigger 
than a shilling, serves as well as a whole 
suit of armour; so our stock bought pen, 
ink, and paper, which was your father's 
trade, and by it, I assure you, we lived 
better than those that were born to 2000/. 
a year as long as he had his liberty. Here 
stay till I have told you your father's life 
until I married him. 

He was but seven years old when his 
father died, and his mother, my Lady, de- 
signed him for the law, having bred him 
first with that famous schoolmaster, Mr. 
Farnabvj and then under the tuition of Dr. 



LADY FANSHAWE. 39 

Beall, in Jesus College in Cambridge, from 
whence, being a most excellent Latinist, he 
was admitted into the Inner Temple ; but it 
seemed so crabbed a study, and disagree- 
able to his inclinations, that he rather stu- 
died to obey his mother than to make any 
progress in the law. Upon the death of* 
his mother, whom he dearly loved and ho- 
noured, he went into France to Paris, where 
he had three cousins german. Lord Strang- 
ford, Sir John Baker of Kent, and my 
cousin Thornell. The whole stock he car- 
ried with him was eighty pieces of gold and 
French silver to the value of five pounds, 
in his pocket ; his gold was quilted in his 
doublet ; he went by post to lodgings in the 
Fauxbourg St. Germain, with an intent to 
rest that night, and the next da}^ to find out 
his kindred ; but the devil, that never sleeps, 
so ordered it, that two friars entered the 
chamber wherein he was, and welcoming 



40 MEMOIRS OF 

him, being his countrymen, invited him to 
play, he innocently only intending diversion, 
till his supper was ready ; but that was not 
their design, for having engaged him, they 
left him not as long as he was worth a groat, 
which, when they discovered, they gave 
him five pieces of his money until he could 
recruit himself by his friends, which he did 
the next day; and from that time forward 
never played for a piece. It came to pass, 
that seven years after, my husband being in 
Huntingdonshire, at a bowling-green, with 
Sir Capel Bedells, and many other persons 
of quality, one in the company was called 
Captain Taller. My husband, who had a 
very quick and piercing eye, marked him 
much, as knowing his face, and found, 
through his peruke wig, and scarlet cloak 
and buff suit, that his name was neither 
Captain nor Taller, but the honest Jesuit 
called Friar Sherwood, that had cheated 



LADY FANSIIAWE. 41 

him of the greatest part of his money, and 
after had lent him the five pieces ; so your 
father went to him, and gave him his five 
pieces, and said, ' Father Sherwood, I know 
you, and you know this' : at which he was 
extremely surprised, and begged of your 
father not to discover him, for his life was 
in danger. After a year's stay in Paris, he 
travelled to Madrid in Spain, there to learn 
that language ; at the same time, for that 
purpose, went the late Earl of Caernarvon, 
and my Lord of Bedford, and Sir John. 
Bartley, and several other gentlemen. Af- 
terwards, having spent some years abroad, 
he returned to London, and gave so good 
an account of his travels, that he was about 
the year 1630 made Secretary of the Em- 
bassy, when my Lord Aston went ambas- 
sador. During your father's travels, he had 
spent a considerable part of his stock, which 
his father and mother left him : in those 



42 MEMOIRS OF 

days, where there were so many younger 
children, it was considerable, being 50/. a- 
year, and 1,500/. in money. Upon the 
return of the ambassador, your father was 
left resident until Sir Arthur Hopton went 
ambassador, and then he came home about 
the year 1637 or l638 ; and I must tell you 
here of an accident your father had coming 
out of Spain in this journey post : he going 
into a bed for some few hours to refresh 
himself, in a village five leagues from Ma- 
drid, he slept so soundly, that notwithstand- 
ing the house was on fire, and all the people 
of the village there, he never waked ; but 
the honesty of the owners was such, that 
they carried him, and set him asleep upon a 
piece of timber on the highway ; and there 
he awaked, and found his portmanteau and 
clothes by him, without the least loss, which 
is extraordinary, considering the possession 



LADY FANSHAWE. 43 

of his landlord, Mho had at that time liis 
house burnt to the ground. 

After being here a year or two, and no 
preferment coming, Secretary Windebank 
calling him Puritan, being his enemy, be- 
cause himself was a Papist, he was, by his 
elder brother, put into the place of the 
King's Remembrancer, absolutely with this 
proviso, that he should be accountable for 
the use of the income ; but if in seven 
years he would pay 8,000/. for it to his 
brother, then it should be his, with the 
whole revenue of it ; but the war breaking- 
out presently after, put an end to this de- 
sign ; for, being the King's sworn servant, 
he went to the King at Oxford, as well as 
his fellows, to avoid the fury of this mad- 
ness of the people, where, having been al- 
most a year, we married, as I said before ; and 
I will continue my discourse where we left. 



44 MEMOIRS OF 

Now we appear upon the stage, to act 
what part God designed us ; and as faith is 
the evidence of things not seen, so we, upon 
so righteous a cause, cheerfully resolved to 
suffer what that would drive us to, which 
afflictions were neither few nor small, as you 
will find. This year the Prince had an 
established Council, which were the Earl of 
Berkshire, Earl of Bradford, Lord Capel,Lord 
Colepeper, Lord Hopton, and Sir Edward 
Hyde, Chancellor of the Exchequer. My 
husband was then, as I said, newly entered 
into his new office of Secretary of the Council 
of War, and the King would have had him 
then to have been sworn his Highness's Secre- 
tary ; but the Queen, who was then no friend 
to my husband, because he had formerly 
made Secretary Windebank appear in his 
colours, who was one of her Majesty's fa- 
vourites, wholly obstructed that then, and 
placed with the Prince Sir Robert Long, for 



I.ADY FANSHAWE. 45 

whom she had a great kindness ; but the 
consequence will show the man. 

The beginning of March, l645, your fa- 
ther went to Bristol with his new master, 
and this was his first journey : I then 
lying-in of my first son, Harrison Fan- 
shawe, who was born on the 22nd of Fe- 
bruary, he left me behind him : as for 
that, it was the first time we had parted a 
day since we married ; he was extremely 
afflicted, even to tears, though passion was 
against his nature ; but the sense of leaving 
mq with a dying child, which did die two 
days after, in a garrison town, extremely 
weak, and very poor, were such circum- 
stances as he could not bear with, only the 
argument of necessity ; and, for my own 
part, it cost me so dear, that I was ten 
weeks before I could go alone ; but he, 
by all opportunities, wrote to me to fortify 
myself, and to comfort me in the com- 



4(3 MEMOIRS OF 

pany of my father and sister, who were 
both with me, and that as soon as the 
Lords of the Council had their wives come 
to them I should come to him, and that 
I should receive the first money he got, 
and hoped it would be suddenly. By the 
help of God, with these cordials I reco- 
vered my former strength by little and 
little, nor did I in my distressed condition 
lack the conversation of many of my re- 
lations then in Oxford, and kindnesses of 
very many of the nobility and gentry, both 
for goodness sake, and because your fa- 
ther being there in good employment, they 
found him seryiceable to themselves or 
friends, which friendships none better dis- 
tinguished between his place and person 
than your father. 

It was in May 1645, the first time I 
went out of my chamber and to church, 
where, after service, Sir WiUiam Parcoust, 



LADY FANSHAWE. 47 

a very honest gentleman, came to me, and 
said he had a letter for me from your 
father, and fifty pieces of gold, and was 
coming to bring them me. I opened first my 
letter, and read those inexpressible joys that 
almost overcame me, for he told me I should 
the Thursday following come to him, and 
to that purpose he had sent me that money, 
and would send two of his men with horses, 
and all accommodation both for myself, my 
father, and sister, and that Lady Capell 
and Lady Bradford would meet me on the 
way; but that gold your father sent me when 
I was ready to perish, did not so much revive 
me as his summons. I went immediately 
to walk, or at least to sit in the air, being 
very weak, in the garden of St. John's Col- 
lege, and there, with my good father, com- 
municated my joy, who took great pleasure 
to hear of my husband's good success and 
likewise of his journey to him ; we, all of 



48 MEMOIRS OF 

my household being present, heard drums 
beat in the highway, under the garden 
wall. My father asked me if I would go 
up upon the mount to see the soldiers 
march, for it was Sir Charles Lee's com- 
pany of foot, an acquaintance of ours ; 
I said yes, and went up, leaning my back 
to a tree that grew on the mount. The 
commander seeing us there, in compliment 
gave us a volley of shot, and one of their 
muskets being loaded, shot a brace of bullets 
not two inches above my head as I leaned 
to the tree, for which mercy and deliverance 
I praise God, and next week we were all 
on our journey for Bristol very merry, and 
thought that now all things would mend, 
and the worst of my misfortunes past, but 
little thought I to leap into the sea that 
would toss me until it had racked me ; but 
we were to ride all night by agreement, for 
fear of the enemy surprising us as we passed. 



LADY FANSHAWE. 49 

they quartering in the way ; about nightfall 
having travelled about twenty miles, we dis- 
covered a troop of horse coming towards us, 
which proved to be Sir Marmaduke Roydon, 
a worthy commander, and my countryman : 
he told me, that hearing I was to pass by his 
garrison he was come out to conduct me, he 
hoped as far as was danger, which was about 
twelve miles ; with many thanks we parted, 
and having refreshed ourselves and horses, 
we set forth for Bristol, where we arrived 
on the 20th of May. My husband had 
provided very good lodgings for us, and as 
soon as he could come home from the 
Council, where he was at my arrival, he 
with all expressions of joy received me in 
his arms, and gave me a hundred pieces of 
gold, saying, " I know thou that keeps my 
heart so well, will keep my fortune, which 
from this time I will ever put into thy 
hands as God shall bless me with increase \*' 

E 



50 



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and now I thought myself a perfect queen, 
and my husband so glorious a crown, that I 
more valued myself to be called by his name 
than born a princess, for I knew him very 
wise and very good, and his soul doated on 
me, upon which confidence I will tell you 
what happened. My Lady Rivers, a brave 
woman, and one that had suffered many 
thousand pounds loss for the King, and 
whom I had a great reverence for, and she a 
kindness for me as a kinswoman, in dis- 
course she tacitly commended the knowledge 
of state affairs, and that some women were 
very happy in a good understanding thereof, 
as my Lady Aubigny, Lady Isabel Thynne, 
and divers others, and yet none was at first 
more capable than I ; that in the night she 
knew there came a post from Paris from the 
Queen, and that she would be extremely 
glad to hear what the Queen commanded 
the King in order to his affairs ; saying, 



LADY FANSHAWE. 51 

if I would ask my husband privately, he 
would tell me what he found in the packet, 
and I might tell her. I that was young and 
innocent, and to that day had never in my 
mouth what news, began to think there 
was more in inquiring into public affairs 
than I thought of, and that it being a 
fashionable thing would make me more 
beloved of my husband, if that had been 
possible, than I was. When my husband 
returned home from council, after welcom- 
ing him, as his custom ever was, he went 
with his handful of papers into his study 
for an hour or more ; I followed him ; he 
turned hastily, and said, ''What wouldst thou 
have, my life V I told him, I heard the 
Prince had received a packet from the 
Queen, and I guessed it was that in his hand, 
and I desired to know^ what was in it ; he 
smilingly replied, " My love, I will imme- 
diately come to thee, pray thee go, for I 

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am very busy */' when he came out of his 
closet I revived my suit; he kissed me, 
and talked of other things. At supper I 
would eat nothing; he as usual sat by 
me, and drank often to me which was his 
custom, and w^as full of discourse to com- 
pany that was at table. Going to bed I 
asked again, and said I could not beheve 
he loved me if he refused to tell me all he 
knew, but he answered nothing, but stopped 
my mouth with kisses. So we went to bed, 
I cried, and he went to sleep ; next morn- 
ing early as his custom was, he called to 
rise, but began to discourse with me first, 
to which I made no reply ; he rose, came 
on the other side of the bed and kissed 
me, and drew the curtains softly and went 
to Court ; when he came home to dinner he 
presently came to me as was usual, and 
when I had him by the hand, ''1 said thou 
dost not Ccire to sec me troubled ;" to which 



LADY FANSHAWE. 53 

he taking me in his arms, answered, '* My 
dearest soul, nothing upon earth can afflict 
me like that, and when you asked me of 
my business, it was wholly out of my power 
to satisfy thee, for my life and fortune shall 
be thine, and every thought of my heart 
in which the trust I am in may not be 
revealed, but my honour is my own, which 
I cannot preserve if I communicate the 
Prince's affairs ; and pray thee with this an- 
swer rest satisfied." So great was his reason 
and goodness, that upon consideration it 
made my folly appear to me so vile, that 
from that day until the day of his death I 
never thought fit to ask him any business, 
but what he communicated freely to me in 
order to his estate or family. My husband 
grew much in the Princess favour ; and Mr. 
Long not being suflfered to execute the busi- 
ness of his place, as the Council suspected 
that he held private intelhgence with the Earl 



54 MEMOIRS OF 

of Essex, which when he perceived he went 
into the enemy's quarters, and so to London, 
and then into France, full of complaints of the 
Prince's Council to the Queen-mother, and 
when he was gone your father supplied his place. 
About July this year, [1645,] the plague 
increased so fast in Bristol, that the Prince 
and all his retinue went to Barnstable, which is 
one of the finest towns in England ; and your 
father and I went two days after the Prince ; 
for during all the time I was in the Court I 
never journeyed, but either before him, or 
when he was gone, nor ever saw him but at 
church, for it was not in those days the 
fashion for honest women, except they had 
business, to visit a man's Court. I saw there 
at Mr. Palmer's, where we lay, who was a 
merchant, a parrot above a hundred years 
old. They have, near this town, a fruit 
called a massard, like a cherry, but differ- 
ent in taste, and makes the best pies with 



LADY FANSHAWE. 55 

their sort of cream I ever eat. My Lady 
Capell here left us, and with a pass from 
the Earl of Essex, went to London with her 
eldest daughter, now Marquesse of Worcester. 
Sir Allan Apsley was governor of the town, 
and we had all sorts of good provision and 
accommodation, but the Prince's affairs call- 
ing him from that place, we went to Laun- 
ceston, in Cornwall, and thither came very 
many gentlemen of that county to do their 
duties to his Highness : they were generally 
loyal to the crown and hospitable to their 
neighbours, but they are of a crafty and 
censorious nature, as most are so far from 
London. That country hath great plenty, 
especially of fish and fowl, but nothing near 
so fat and sweet as within forty miles of 
London. We were quartered at Truro, 
twenty miles beyond Launceston, in which 
place I had like to have been robbed. One 
night having with me but seven or eight per- 



56 MEMOIRS OF 

sons, my husband being then at Launceston 
with his master, somebody had discovered 
that my husband had a httle trunk of the 
Prince's in keeping, in which were some jewels 
that tempted them to us assay ; but, praised 
be God, I defended, with the few servants I 
had, the house so long that help came from 
the town to my rescue, which was not above 
a flight shot from the place where I dwelt ; 
and the next day upon my notice my hus- 
band sent me a guard by his Highness's 
command. From thence the Court removed 
to Pendennis Castle, some time commanded 
by Sir Nicholas Slanning, who lost his life 
bravely in the King's service, and left an ex- 
cellent name behind him. In this place 
came Sir John Grenville into his Highnesses 
service, and was made a gentleman of his 
bed-chamber. His father was a very honest 
gentleman, and lost his life in the King's ser- 
vice ; and his uncle, Sir Richard, was a good 



LADY FANSHAWE. 57 

commander, but a little too severe. I was 
at Penzance with my father, and in the same 
town was my brother Fanshawe and his 
lady and children. My father and that 
family embarked for Morlaix, in Brittainy, 
with my father's new wife, which he had 
then married out of that family. My cousin 
Fanshawe, of Jenkins, and his eldest son be- 
ing with them went also over, but being in 
a small vessel of that port and surprised 
with a great storm, they had all like to have 
been cast away, which forced them to land 
in a little creek, two leagues from Morlaix, 
upon the 38th of March, 1646; and five 
days after the Prince and all his council 
embarked themselves in a ship, called the 
Phoenix, for the Isles of Scilly. They went 
from the Lands-end, and so did we ; being 
accompanied with many gentlemen of that 
country, among whom was Sir Francis 
Basset, Governor of the Mount, an honest 



58 MEMOIRS OF 

gentlcnmn, and so were all his family ; and 
in particular we received great civility from 
them. But we left our house and furniture 
with Captain Bluett, who promised to keep 
them until such a time as we could dispose 
of them ; but when we sent, he said he had 
been plundered of them, notwithstanding it 
was well known he lost nothing of his own. 
At that time this loss w^ent deep with us, for 
we lost to the value of 200/. and more, 
but as the proverb saith, an evil chance 
seldom comes alone ; we having put all our 
present estate into two trunks, and carried 
them aboard with us in a ship command- 
ed by Sir Nicholas Crispe, whose skill and 
honesty the master and seamen had no 
opinion of, my husband was forced to ap- 
pease their mutiny which his miscarriage 
caused; and taking out money to pay the 
seamen, that night following they broke 
open one of our trunks, and took out a 



LADY FANSHAWE. 59 

bag of 60/. and a quantity of gold lace, 
with our best clothes and linen, with all 
my combs, gloves, and ribbons, which 
amounted to near 300/. more. The next 
day, after having been pillaged, and ex- 
tremely sick and big with child, I was set 
on shore almost dead in the Island of 
Scilly ; when we had got to our quarters 
near the Castle, where the Prince lay, I 
went immediately to bed, which was so vile, 
that my footman ever lay in a better, and 
we had but three in the whole house, which 
consisted of four rooms, or rather partitions, 
two low rooms and two little lofts, with a 
ladder to go up : in one of these they kept 
dried fish, which was his trade, and in this 
my husband's two clerks lay, one there 
was for my sister, and one for myself, and 
one amongst the rest of the servants ; but, 
when I waked in the morning, I was so 
cold I knew not what to do, but the day- 



60 MEMOIRS OF 

light discovGred that my bed was near 
swimming with the sea, which the owner 
told us afterwards it never did so but at 
spring tide. With this we were destitute of 
clothes, and meat, and fuel, for half the 
Court to serve them a month was not to 
be had in the whole island, and truly we 
begged our daily bread of God, for we 
thought every meal our last. The Council 
sent for provisions to France, which served 
us, but they were bad, and a little of them ; 
then, after three weeks and odd days, we set 
sail for the Isle of Jersey, where we safely 
arrived, praised be God, beyond the belief 
of all the beholders from that island, for 
the pilot not knowing the way into the 
harbour, sailed over the rocks, but being 
spring tide, and by chance high water, 
God be praised, his Highness and all of us 
came safe ashore through so great a danger. 
Sir George Carteret was Lieutenant-Go- 



LADY FANSHAWE. 61 

verrior of the island, under my Lord St. 
Albans, a man formerly bred a sea-boy, and 
born in that island, the brother's son of Sir 
Philip Carteret, whose younger daughter 
he afterwards married. He endeavoured, 
with all his power, to entertain his Highness 
and Court with all plenty and kindness 
possible, both which the island afforded, and 
what was wanting he sent for out of France. 
There are in this island two castles, both 
good, but St. Mary's is best, and hath the 
largest reception : there are many gentle- 
men's houses, at which we were entertained : 
they have fine walks along to their doors, 
double elms or oaks, which is extremely plea- 
sant, and their ordinary highways are good 
walks, by reason of the shadow. The whole 
place is grass, except some small parcels where 
corn is grown : the chiefest employment is 
knitting; they neither speak English nor 
good French ; they are a cheerful, good- 



62 MEMOIRS OF 

natured people, and truly subject to the 
present government. We quartered at a 
widow's house in the market-place, Madame 
De Pommes, a stocking merchant ; here I 
was upon the 7th of March,* 1646, delivered 
of my second child, a daughter, christened 
Anne. And now there began great dis- 
putes about the Prince, for the Queen would 
have him to Paris, to which end she sent 
many letters and messengers to his High- 
ness and Council, who were for the most 
part against his going, both to the Queen 
his mother, and his going to France, for 
reasons of state, but the Queen having 
an excellent solicitor in the Lord Colepeper, 
it was resolved by his Highness to go, upon 
which Lord Capell, Lord Hopton, and the 
Chancellor, staid at Jersey, and with them 
my husband, whose employment ceased 

* Query, May or June. She did not arrive in Jersey, 
until April. 



LADY FANSHAWE. G3 

when his master went out of his father's 
kingdom; not that your father sided with 
either party of the Council, but having 
no inchnation at that time to go to the 
Court, and because his brother. Lord Fan- 
shawe, was desperately sick at Caen, he 
intended to stay some time with him. 

About the beginning of July, the Prince 
accompanied with the Earl of Bradford, a 
soldier of fortune, and Lord Colepeper, and 
the Earl of Berkshire, and most of his ser- 
vants, went to Cotanville, and from thence 
to Paris, where he remained some little 
time by his mother, the Queen's council, 
and afterwards went into Holland. Your 
father and I remained fifteen days in Jer- 
sey, and resolved that he would remain with 
his brother in Caen, whilst he sent me 
into England, whither my father was gone 
a month before, to see if I could procure a 
sum of money. The beginning of August 



64 MEMOIRS OF 

Ave took our leave of the governor's family, 
and left our child with a nurse under the 
care of the Lady Carteret, and in four days 
we came to Caen, and myself, sister, and 
maid, went from Mr. Fanborne's house, 
where my brother and all his family 
lodged, aboard a small merchantman that 
lay in the river; and upon the 30th of 
August, I arrived in the Cowes, near 
Southampton, to which place I went that 
night, and came to London two days after. 
This was the first time I had taken a 
journey without your father, and the first 
manage of business he ever put into my 
hands, in which I thank God I had good 
success, for lodging in Fleet Street, at Mr. 
Eates, the Watchmaker, with my sister 
Boteler, I procured by the means of Colonel 
Copley, a great Parliament-man, whose 
wife had formerly been obliged to our 
family, a pass for your father to come and 



T.ADY FANSHAWE. 



65 



compound for 300/., which was a part of 
my fortune, but it was only a pretence, for 
your grandfather was obHged to compound 
for it, and deHver it us free ; and when your 
father was come, he was very private in 
London, for he was in daily fears to be 
imprisoned before he could raise money to 
go back again to his master, who was not 
then in a condition to maintain him. Thus 
upon thorns he staid the October, 1647, 
(in the October before, 1646, my brother 
Richard Harrison was born ;) and this year 
my sister Boteler married Sir Philip War- 
wick, her second husband, for her first, Sir 
William Boteler, was killed at Cropley bridge, 
commanding a part of the King's army: 
he was a most gallant, worthy, honest 
gentleman. 

The 30th of July I was delivered of a son, 
called Henry, in lodgings in Portugal-row, 
Lincoln's-inn-fields. This was a very sad time 

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for us ail of the King's party, for by the 
folly, to give it no worse name, of Sir John 
Berkeley, since Lord Berkeley, and Mr. John 
Ashburnham, of the King's bed-chamber, 
who were drawn in by the cursed crew of the 
then standing army for the Parliament to 
persuade the King to leave Hampton Court, 
to which they had then carried him, and 
to make his escape, which design failing, as 
the plot was laid, he was tormented and 
afterwards barbarously and shamefully mur- 
dered, as all the world knows. 

During his stay at Hampton Court, 
my husband was with him, to whom he 
was pleased to talk much of his concerns, 
and gave him there credentials for Spain, 
with private instructions, and letters for 
his service ; but God for our sins disposed 
his Majesty's affairs otherwise. I went 
three times to pay my duty to him, both 
as I was the daughter of his servant, and 



LADY FANSHAWE. 



67 



wife of his servant. The last time I ever saw 
him, when I took my leave, I could not re- 
frain weeping : when he had saluted me, 
I prayed to God to preserve his Majesty 
with long life and happy years ; he stroked 
me on the cheek, and said, ' Child, if God 
pleaseth it shall be so, but both you and I 
must submit to God's will, and you know 
in what hands I am in ;' then turning to 
your father, he said, ' Be sure, Dick, to 
tell my son all that I have said, and de- 
liver those letters to my wife ; pray God 
bless her ! I hope I shall do well :' and tak- 
ing him in his arms, said, ' Thou hast ever 
been an honest man, and I hope God will 
bless thee, and make thee a happy servant 
to my son, whom I have charged in my 
letter to continue his love, and trust to 
you,' adding, ' I do promise you that if 
ever I am restored to my dignity I will 
bountifully reward you both for your service 

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and suft'erings.' Thus did we part tVoni 
that glorious sun, that within a few months 
after was murdered, to the grief of all 
Christians that were not forsaken by God. 

The October, as I told you, my hus- 
band and I went into France, by the way 
of Portsmouth, where, walking by the sea 
side about a mile from our lodgings, two 
ships of the Dutch, then in war with 
England, shot bullets at us so near that 
we heard them whiz by us, at which I 
called to my husband to make haste back 
and began to run, but he altered not his 
pace, saying, ' If we must be killed it were 
as good to be killed walking as running/ 
But escaping we embarked the next day ; 
and that journey fetched home our girl 
we had left in Jersey, and my husband 
was forced to come out of France to Ham- 
merton, in Huntingdonshire, to my sister 
Bedell's, to the wedding of his nephew, the 



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last Lord Thomas Fanshawe, who then 
married the daughter of Ferrers : as I have 
said before, she was a very great fortune, 
and a most excellent w^oman, and brought 
up some time after her mother's death with 
my sister Bedell. 

About two months after this, in June, I 
was delivered of a son on the 8th day, 1()48. 
The latter end of July I went to London, 
leaving my little boy Richard at nurse with 
his brother at Hattenfordbury. It happened 
to be the very day after that the Lord Hol- 
land was taken prisoner at St. Neot, and 
Lord Francis Villiers was killed ; and as we 
passed through the town, we saw Colonel 
Mountague, afterwards Earl of Sandwich, 
spoiling the town for the Parliament and 
himself. Coming to London, I went to wel- 
come the Marchioness of Ormond to town, 
that then was come out of France, who 
received me with great kindness, as she 



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ever had done before, and told me she 
must love me for many reasons, and one 
was, that we were both born in one cham- 
ber : when I left her, she presented me with 
a ruby ring set with two diamonds, which 
she prayed me to wear for her sake, and I 
have it to this day. 

In the month of September, my husband 
was commanded by the Prince to wait on him 
in the Downs, where he was with a very con- 
siderable fleet ; but the fleet was divided, part 
being for the King, and part for the Parlia- 
ment. They were resolved to fight that day, 
which if they had would have been the most 
cruel fight that ever England knew ; but 
God by his will parted them by a storm ; 
and afterwards it was said, Lord Colepeper, 
and one Low, a surgeon, that was a reputed 
knave, so ordered the business, that for mo- 
ney the fleet was betrayed to the enemy. 
During this time my husband wrote me a 



LADY FANSHAWE. 71 

letter, from on board the Prince/s ship, full 
of concern for me, beheving they should 
engage on great odds ; but if he should 
lose his life, advised me to patience, and 
this with so much love and reason, that 
my heart melts to this day when I think 
of it ; but, God be praised, he was reserved 
for better things. 

In December my husband went to Paris 
on his master's business, and sent for me 
from London : I carried him 300/. of his 
money. During our stay at Paris, I was 
highly obliged to the Queen-Mother of Eng- 
land. We passed away six weeks with great 
delight in good company; my Lady Norton, 
that was governess to the Lady Henrietta, 
Charles the First^s youngest daughter, was 
very kind. I had the honour of her com- 
pany, both in my own lodging and in the 
Palace Royal, where she attended her 
charge ; likewise my Lady Danby, and her 



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daughter, my Leidy Guilford, with man}^ 
others of our nation, both in the Court and 
out of it ; amongst whom was Mr. Waller, 
the poet, and his wife : they went with us 
to Calais, upon the 25th of December, 1649. 
I, with my husband, kissed the Queen- 
Mother^s hand, who promised her favour, 
with much grace, to us both, and sent let- 
ters to the King, then in Holland, by my 
husband. From her Majesty we waited on 
the Princes, and afterwards took our leave 
of all that Court. 

When we came to Calais, we met the Earl 
of Strafford and Sir Kenelm Digby, with some 
others of our countrymen. We were all feast- 
ed at the Governor's of the castle, and much 
excellent discourse passed; but, as was rea- 
son, most share was Sir Kenelm Digby's, who 
had enlarged somewhat more in extraordi- 
nary stories than might be averred, and all of 
them passed with great applause and wonder 



LADY FANSHAWE. 73 

of the French then at table; but the conclud- 
ing one was, that barnacles, a bird in Jer- 
sey, was first a shell-fish to appearance, and 
from that, sticking upon old wood, became 
in time a bird. After some consideration, 
they unanimously burst out into laughter, 
believing it altogether false ; and, to say the 
truth, it was the only thing true he had dis- 
coursed with them ; that was his infirmity, 
though otherwise a person of most excellent 
parts, and a very fine bred gentleman. 

My husband thought it convenient to send 
me into England again, there to try what 
sums I could raise, both for his subsistence 
abroad and mine at home ; and though no- 
thing was so grievous to us both as parting, 
yet the necessity both of the public and your 
father's private aflfairs, obliged us often to 
yield to the trouble of absence, as at this 
time. I took my leave with sad heart, and 
embarked myself in a hoy for Dover, with 



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Mrs. Waller and my sister Margaret Har- 
rison, and my little girl Nan ; but a great 
storm arising, we had like to be cast away, 
the vessel being half full of water, and we 
forced to land at Deal, every one carried 
upon men^s backs, and we up to the middle 
in water, and very glad to escape so. About 
this time the Prince of Orange was born. 

My husband went from thence by Flanders 
into Holland to his master ; and, in Febru- 
ary following, your father was sent into Ire- 
land by the King, there to receive such 
monies as Prince Rupert could raise by the 
fleet he commanded of the King's ; but a 
few months put an end to that design, 
though it had a very good aspect in the 
beginning, which made my husband send 
for me and the little family I had thither. 
We went by Bristol very cheerfully towards 
my north star, that only had the power to 
fix me ; and because I had had the good 



LADY VANSHAWE. 75 

fortune, as I then thought it, to sell 300/. 
a year to him that is now Judge Archer, in 
Essex, for which he gave me 4,000/., which, 
at that time, I thought a vast sum ; but be 
it more or less, I am sure it was spent in 
seven years" time in the King's service, and 
to this hour I repent it not, I thank God. 
Five hundred pounds I carried my husband, 
the rest I left in my father^s agent's hands, to 
be returned as we needed it. 

I landed at Youghall, in Munster, as 
my husband directed me, in hopes to meet 
me there ; but I had the discomfort of a 
very hazardous voyage, and the absence 
of your father, he then being upon bu- 
siness at Cork. So soon as he heard I 
was landed, he came to me, and with mu- 
tual joy we discoursed those things that 
were proper to entertain us both ; and thus, 
for six months, we lived so much to our satis- 
faction, that we began to think of making 



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our abode there during the war, for the 
country was fertile, and all provisions cheap, 
and the houses good, and we were placed in 
Red Abbey, a house of Dean Boyle's, in 
Cork, and my Lord of Ormond had a very 
good army, and the country seemingly quiet ; 
and, to complete our content, all persons 
were very civil to us, especially Dean Boyle, 
Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and Archbishop 
of Dublin and his family, and the Lord 
Inchiquin, whose daughter Elkenna I chris- 
tened in 1650. 

But what earthly comfort is exempt 
from change ? for here I heard of the death 
of my second son, Henry, emd, with- 
in a few weeks, of the landing of Crom- 
well, who so hotly marched over Ireland, 
that the fleet with Prince Rupert was forced 
to set sail, and within a small time after 
he lost all his riches, which was thought to 
be worth hundreds of thousands of pounds, 



LADY F ANSI! AWE. 77 

in one of his best ships, commanded by his 
brother Maurice, who with many a brave 
man sunk, were all lost in a storm at 
sea. 

We remained some time behind in Ire- 
land, until my husband could receive his 
Majesty's commands how to dispose of him- 
self. During this time I had, by the fall of a 
stumbling horse, being with child, broke my 
left wrist, which, because it was ill-set, put 
me to great and long pain, and I was in my 
bed when Cork revolted. By chance that 
day my husband was gone on business to 
Kinsale : it was in the beginning of No- 
vember, 1650. At midnight I heard the 
great guns go off, and thereupon I called 
up my family to rise, which I did as well as 
I could in that condition. Hearing lament- 
able shrieks of men, women, and children, 
I asked at a window the cause ; they told 
me they were all Irish, stripped and wound- 



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ed, and turned out of the town, and that 
Colonel Jeffries, with some others, had pos- 
sessed themselves of the town for Cromwell. 
Upon this, I immediately wrote a letter to my 
husband, blessing God's providence that he 
was not there with me, persuading him to 
patience and hope that I should get safely 
out of the town, by God's assistance, and 
desired him to shift for himself, for fear of a 
surprise, with promise that I would secure 
his papers. 

So soon as I had finished my letter, 
I sent it by a faithful servant, who was 
let down the garden-wall of Red Abbey, 
and, sheltered by the darkness of the night, 
he made his escape. I immediately packed 
up my husband's cabinet, with all his writings, 
and near 1,000/. in gold and silver, and 
all other things both of clothes, linen, and 
household stuff that were portable, of value ; 
and then, about three o'clock in the morn- 



LADY FANSHAWE. 79 

ing, by the light of a taper, and in that pain 
I was in, I went into the market-place, with 
only a man and maid, and passing through 
an unruly tumult with their swords in their 
hands, searched for their chief comman- 
der Jeffries, who, whilst he was loyal, had 
received many civilities from your father. I 
told him it was necessary that upon that 
change I should remove, and I desired his 
pass that would be obeyed, or else I must 
remain there : I hoped he would not deny 
me that kindness. He instantly wrote me a 
pass, both for myself, family, and goods, 
and said he would never forget the respect 
he owed your father. With this, I came 
through thousands of naked swords to Red 
Abbey, and hired the next neighbour's 
cart, which carried all that I could re- 
move ; and myself, sister, and little girl 
Nan, with three maids and two men, set 
forth at five o'clock in November, having 



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but two horses amongst us all, which we rid 
on by turns. In this sad condition I left 
Red Abbey, with as many goods as were 
worth 100/. which could not be removed, 
and so were plundered. Wc went ten miles 
to Kinsale, in perpetual fear of being fetch- 
ed back again ; but, by little and little, I 
thank God, we got safe to the garrison, 
where I found your father the most discon- 
solate man in the world, for fear of his fa- 
mily, which he had no possibility to assist ; 
but his joys exceeded to see me and his 
darling daughter, and to hear the wonderful 
escape we, through the assistance of God, 
had made. 

But when the rebels went to give an 
account to Cromwell of their meritorious 
act, he immediately asked them where 
Mr. Fanshawe was ? They replied, he was 
that day gone to Kinsale. Then he de- 
manded where his papers and his family 



LADY FANSHAWE. 81 

were ? At which they all stared one at an- 
other, but made no reply. Their General 
said, ' it was as much worth to have seized his 
papers as the town ; for I did make account 
to have known by them what these parts of 
the country are worth/ 

But we within a few days received the 
King's order, which was, that my husband 
should, upon sight thereof, go into Spain to 
PhiHp IV. and deliver him his Majesty's let- 
ters; and by my husband also his Majesty 
sent letters to my Lord Cottington and Sir Ed- 
ward Hyde, his Ambassadors Extraordinary 
in that court. Upon this order we went to 
Macrome to the Lord Clancarty, who married 
a sister of the Lord Ormond : we stayed there 
two nights, and at my coming away, after 
very noble entertainment, my Lady gave me 
a great Irish greyhound, and I presented her 
with a fine beset-stone. 

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From thence we went to Limerick, where 
we were entertained by the Mayor and Al- 
dermen very nobly ; and the Recorder of the 
Town was very kind, and in respect they 
made my husband a freeman of Limerick. 
There we met the Bishop of Londonderry 
and the Earl of Roscommon, who was 
Lord Chancellor of that Kingdom at that 
time. These two persons with my husband 
being together writing letters to the King, to 
give an account of the kingdom, when they 
were going down stairs from my Lord Ros- 
common's chamber, striving to hold the can- 
dle at the stairs" head, because the privacy of 
their despatch admitted not a servant to be 
near, my Lord Roscommon fell down the 
stairs, and his head fell upon the corner of a 
stone and broke his scull in three pieces, of 
which he died five days after, leaving the 
broad seal of Ireland in your father's hands. 



LADY FANSHAWE. 83 

until such time as he could acquaint his 
Majesty with this sad account, and receive 
orders how to dispose of the seals. This 
caused our longer stay, but your father and I 
being invited to my Lord Inchiquin's, there 
to stay till we heard out of Holland from the 
King, which was a month before the messen- 
ger returned, we had very kind entertain- 
ment, and vast plenty of fish and fowl. By 
this time my Lord Lieutenant, the now Duke 
of Ormond's army was quite dispersed, and 
himself gone for Holland, and every person 
concerned in that interest shifting for their 
lives ; and Cromwell went through as bloodily 
as victoriously, many worthy persons being 
murdered in cold blood, and their families 
quite ruined. 

From hence we went to the Lady 
Honor O'Brien's, a lady that went for a 
maid, but few believed it : she was the 

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youngest daughter of the Earl of Tho- 
niond. There we staid three nights. The 
first of which I was surprised by being 
laid in a chamber, when, about one o'clock, 
I heard a voice that wakened me. I drew 
the curtain, and, in the casement of the 
window, I saw, by the light of the moon, 
a woman leaning into the window, through 
the casement, in white, with red hair and 
pale and ghastly complexion : she spoke 
loud, and in a tone 1 had never heard, 
thrice, ' a horse ;' and then, with a sigh more 
like the wind than breath, she vanished, and 
to me her body looked more like a thick 
cloud than substance. I was so much 
frightened, that my hair stood on end, and 
my night clothes fell off. I pulled and 
pinched your father, who never woke during 
the disorder I was in ; but at last was much 
surprised to see me in this fright, and more so 
when I related the story and showed him the 



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window opened. Neither of us slept any- 
more that night, but he entertained me with 
teUing me how much more these apparitions 
were usual in this country than in England ; 
and we concluded the cause to be the great 
superstition of the Irish, and the want of 
that knowing faith, which should defend 
them from the power of the Devil, which he 
exercises among them very much. About 
five o'clock the lady of the house came to 
see us, saying she had not been in bed all 
night, because a cousin O'Brien of her's, 
whose ancestors had owned that house, had 
desired her to stay with him in his chamber,' 
and that he died at two o'clock, and she 
said, ' I wish you to have had no disturbance, 
for 'tis the custom of the place, that, when 
any of the family are dying, the shape 
of a woman appears in the window every 
night till they be dead. This woman was 
many ages ago got with child by the owner 



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of this place, who murdered her in his gar- 
den, and flung her into the river under the 
window, but truly I thought not of it when I 
lodged you here, it being the best room in 
the house.' We made little reply to her 
speech, but disposed ourselves to be gone 
suddenly. 

By this time my husband had received or- 
ders from the King to give the Lord Inchiquin 
the seals to keep until further orders from his 
Majesty. When that business was settled, 
we went, accompanied by my Lord Inchi- 
quin and his family, four or five miles to- 
wards Galway, which he did not by choice, 
but the plague had been so hot in that city 
the summer before, that it was almost depo- 
pulated, and the haven as much as the 
town. But your father hearing that, by 
accident, there was a great ship of Amster- 
dam bound for Malaga, in Spain, and 
Cromwell pursuing his conquests at our backs, 



LADY FANSHAWE. 87 

resolved to fall into the hands of God rather 
than into the hands of men ; and with his 
family of about ten persons came to the 
town at the latter end of February, where 
we found guards placed that none should 
enter without certificates from whence they 
came ; but understanding that your father 
came to embark himself for Spain, and that 
there was a merchant's house taken for us, 
that was near the sea-side, and one of their 
best, they told us if we pleased to alight 
they would wait on us to the place ; but it 
was long from thence, and no horses were 
admitted into the town. 

An Irish footman that served us, said, ' I 
lived here some years and know every street, 
and likewise know a much nearer way than 
these men can show you, Sir ; therefore 
come with me, if you please/ We resolved to 
follow him, and sent our horses to stables in 
the suburbs : he led us all on the back side 



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of the toM'i), under the walls over which 
the people during the plague, which was 
not yet quite stopped, flung out all their 
dung, dirt, and rags, and we walked up 
to the middle of our legs in them, for, being 
engaged, we could not get back. At last 
we found the house, by the master stand- 
ing at the door expecting us, who said, 
'You are welcome to this disconsolate city, 
where you now see the streets grown over 
with grass, once the finest little city in the 
world ;' and indeed it was easy to think so, 
the buildings being uniformly built, and a 
very fine market-place and walks arched 
and paved by the sea-side for their mer- 
chants to walk on, and a most noble har- 
bour. 

Our house was very clean, only one 
maid in it besides the master ; we had a 
very good supper provided, and being very 
weary went early to bed. The owner of 



LADY FANSHAWE. 89 

this house entertained us with the story 
of the last Marquis of Worcester, who had 
been there some time the year before : he 
had of his own and other friends' jewels to 
the value of 8,000/., which some merchants 
had lent upon them. My Lord appointed a 
day for receiving the money upon them and 
delivering the jewels; being met, he shows 
them all to these persons, then seals them 
up in a box, and delivered them to one 
of these merchants, by consent of the rest, 
to be kept for one year, and upon the pay- 
ment of the 8,000/. by my Lord Marquis 
to be delivered him. 

After my Lord had received the money, he 
was entertained at all these persons' houses, 
and nobly feasted with them near a month : 
he went from thence into France. When the 
year was expired they, by letters into France, 
pressed the payment of this borrowed mo- 
ney several times, alleging they had great 



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necessity of their money to drive their 
trade with, to which my Lord Marquis made 
no answer, which did at last so exasperate 
these men, that they broke open the seals, 
and opening the box found nothing but 
rags and stones for their 8,000/., at which 
they were highly enraged, and in this 
case I left them. 

At the beginning of February we took ship, 
and our kind host, with much satisfaction in 
our company, prayed God to bless us and 
give us a good voyage, for, said he, ' I thank 
God you are all gone safe aboard from my 
house, notwithstanding 1 have buried nine 
persons out of my house within these six 
months ;' which saying much startled us, but, 
God's name be praised, we were all well 
and so continued. 

Here now our scene was shifted from 
land to sea, and we left that brave king- 
dom fallen, in six or eight months, into 



LADY lANSHAWE. 91 

a most miserable sad condition, as it 
hath been many times in most kings' 
reigns, God knows why ! for I presume 
not to say; but the natives seem to me 
a very loving people to each other, and 
constantly false to all strangers, the Spa- 
niards only excepted. The country ex- 
ceeds in timber and sea-ports, and great 
plenty of fish, fowl, flesh, and, by shipping, 
wants no foreign commodities. We pur- 
sued our voyage with prosperous winds, 
but with a most tempestuous master, a 
Dutchman, which is enough to say, but 
truly, I think, the greatest beast I eyer 
saw of his kind. 

When we had just passed the Straits, 
we saw coming towards us, with full 
sails, a Turkish galley well manned, and 
we believed we should be all carried away 
slaves, for this man had so laden his 
ship with goods for Spain, that his guns 



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were useless, though the ship carried 
sixty guns : he called for brandy, and 
after he had well drunken, and all his 
men, which were near two hundred, he 
called for arms and cleared the deck as 
well as he could, resolving to fight rather 
than lose his ship, which was worth 
thirty thousand pounds ; this was sad for 
us passengers, but my husband bid us be 
sure to keep in the cabin, and not appear, 
the women, which would make the Turks 
think that we were a man-of-war, but if 
they saw women they would take us for 
merchants and board us. He went upon 
the deck, and took a gun and bandoliers, 
and sword, and, with the rest of the ship's 
company, stood upon deck expecting the 
arrival of the Turkish man-of-war. This 
beast, the Captain, had locked me up in 
the cabin ; I knocked and called long to 
no purpose, until, at length, the cabin-boy 



LADY FANSHAWE. 93 

came and opened the door ; I, all in tears, 
desired him to be so good as to give me 
his blue thrum cap he wore, and his tarred 
coat, which he did, and I gave him half-a- 
crown, and putting them on and flinging 
away my night clothes, I crept up softly 
and stood upon the deck by my husband^s 
side, as free from sickness and fear as, I 
confess, from discretion; but it was the 
effect of that passion, which I could never 
master. 

By this time the two vessels were 
engaged in parley, and so well satis- 
fied with speech and sight of each others 
forces, that the Turks' man-of-war tack- 
ed about, and we continued our course. 
But when your father saw it convenient to 
retreat, looking upon me, he blessed him- 
self, and snatched me up in his arms, say- 
ing, ^Good God, that love can make this 
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me, he would laugb at it as often as he re- 
membered that voyage; and in the begin- 
ning of March we all landed, praised be God, 
in Malaga, very well and full of content to 
see ourselves delivered from the sword and 
plague, and living in hope that we should 
one day return happily to our native coun- 
try; notwithstanding, we thought it great 
odds, considering how the affairs of the 
King's three kingdoms stood; but we trusted 
in the providence of Almighty God, and 
proceeded. 

We were very kindly entertained by the 
merchants, and by them lodged in a mer- 
chant's house, where we had not been with 
our goods three days, when the vessel that 
brought us thither, by the negligence of a 
cabin-boy, was blown up in the harbour, 
with the loss of above a hundred men and 
all our lading. 

After we had refreshed ourselves some days, 



LADY FANSHAWE. 95 

we went on our journey towards Madrid, 
and lodged the first night at Velez Malaga, 
to which we were accompanied by most of 
the merchants. The next day we went to 
Grenada, having passed the highest moun- 
tains I ever saw in my life, but under this 
lieth the finest valley that can be possibly 
described, adorned with high trees and rich 
grass, and beautified with a large deep clear 
river over the town, and this standeth the 
goodly vast palace of the King's, called the 
Alhambra, whose buildings are, after the 
fashion of the Moors, adorned with vast 
quantities of jasper-stone ; many courts, 
many fountains, and by reason it is situated 
on the side of a hill, and not built uniform, 
many gardens with ponds in them, and 
many baths made of jasper, and many 
principal rooms roofed with the mosaic 
work, which exceeds the finest enamel I 
ever saw. Here I was showed in the midst 



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of a very large piece of rich embroidery 
made by the Moors of Grenada, in the 
middle as long as half a yard, of the true 
tirian dye, which is so glorious a colour, 
that it cannot be expressed : it hath the 
glory of scarlet, the beauty of purple, and 
is so bright, that when the eye is removed 
upon any other object it seems as white as 
snow. 

The entry into this great Palace is of 
stone, for a Porter's-lodge, but very mag- 
nificent, though the gate below, which is 
adorned with figures of forest-work, in 
which the Moors did transcend. High 
above this gate was a bunch of keys cut 
in stone likewise, with this motto : ' Until 
that hand holds those keys, the Christians 
shall never possess this Alhambra.^ This 
was a prophecy they had, in which they 
animated themselves, by reason of the im- 
possibility that ever they should meet. But 



LADY FAN SH AWE. 97 

see, bow true there is a time for all things. 
It happened that when the Moors were be- 
sieged in that place by Don Fernando 
and his Queen Isabella, the King with an 
arrow out of a bow, which they then used 
in war, shooting the first arrow as their 
custom is, cut that part of the stone that 
holds the keys, which was in fashion of 
a chain, and the keys falling, remained 
in the hand underneath. This strange ac- 
cident preceded but a few days the con- 
quest of the town of Grenada and king- 
dom. 

They have in this place an iron grate, fixed 
into the side of the hill, that is a rock : I laid 
my head to the key-hole and heard a noise 
like the clashing of arms, but could not dis- 
tinguish other shrill noises I heard with that, 
but tradition says it could never be opened 
since the Moors left it, notwithstanding 

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several persons had endeavoured to wrench 
it open, but that they perished in the at- 
tempt. The truth of this I can say no more 
to; but that there is such a gate, and I have 
seen it. 

After two days we went on our journey ; 
and on the ]3th of April, 1650. we came to 
the Court of Madrid, where we were the next 
day visited by the two English ambassadors, 
and afterwards by all the English merchants. 

Here I was delivered of my first daugh- 
ter, that was called Ehzabeth, upon the 13th 
of July. She lived but fifteen days ; and 
lies buried in the Chapel of the French 
Hospital. Your father had great difficulty 
to carry on his business, without encroach- 
ing upon the Extraordinary Ambassador's 
negociation, and the performance of his Ma- 
jesty's commands to show his present necessi- 
ties, which he was sent to Phihp IV. for, in 



I.ADY FANSHAWE. 99 

hopes of a present supply of money, which 
our Kuig then lacked ; but finding no good 
to be done on that errand, he and I, ac- 
companied by Dr. Bell, of Jesus College in 
Cambridge, who had been his tutor, went 
a day's journey together towards St. Se- 
bastian, there to embark for France. 

While we staid in this Court we were 
kindly treated by all the English, and it was 
no small trouble to your father's tutor to quit 
his company ; but having undertaken the 
charge of that family of the ambassador's, 
as their chaplain, he said, he held himself 
obliged in conscience to stay, and so he 
did. In a few months after he died there, 
and lies buried in the garden-house where 
they then lived. 

Whilst we were in Madrid, there was 
sent one Askew, as resident from the 
then Governor of England ; he lay in a 

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common eating-house where some travellers 
used to lie, and being one day at din- 
ner, some young men meeting in the 
street with Mr. Prodgers, a gentleman be- 
longing to the Lord Ambassador Cotting- 
ton, and Mr. Sparks, an English mer- 
chant, discoursing of news, began to speak 
of the impudence of that Askew, to come 
a public minister from rebels, to a Court 
where there were two Ambassadors from 
his King. This subject being handled with 
heat, they all resolved to go without more 
consideration into his lodgings immediately 
and kill him: they came up to his chamber 
door, and finding it open, and he sat at 
dinner, seized him, and so killed him, and 
went their several ways. Afterwards they 
found Mr. Sparks in a church for rescue, 
notwithstanding it was contrary to their 
religion and laws, and they forced him out 



LADY FANSHAWE. 101 

from thence, and executed him pubUcly, 
their fears of the EngUsh power were then 
so great. 

There was at that time the Lord Goring, 
son to the Earl of Norwich : he had a 
command under Philip the Fourth of 
Spain, against the Portuguese ; he was ge- 
nerally esteemed a good and great com- 
mander, and had been brought up in Hol- 
land in his youth, of vast natural parts ; 
for I have heard your father say, he hath 
dictated to several persons at once that were 
upon despatches, and all so admirably well, 
that none of them could be mended ; he 
was exceeding facetious and pleasant com- 
pany, and in conversation where good 
manners were due, the civilest person 
imaginable, so that he would blush like a 
girl. He was very tall, and very handsome : 
he had been married to a daughter of the 
Earl of Cork, but never had a child by 



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her; his expenses were what he could get, 
and his debauchery beyond all precedents, 
which at last lost him that love the 
Spaniards had for him, and that country 
not admitting his constant drinking, he fell 
sick of a hectick fever, in which he turned 
his religion, and with that artifice could 
scarce get to keep him whilst he lived in that 
sickness, or to bury him when he was dead. 

We came to St. Sebastian's about the 
beginning of September, and there hired 
a small French vessel to carry us to 
Nantz : we embarked within two days 
after our coming to this town. I never saw 
so wild a place, nor were the inhabitants 
unsuitable, but like to like, which made us 
hasten away, and I am sure to our cost 
we found the proverb true, for our haste 
brought us woe. We had not been a day 
at sea before we had a storm begun, that 
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LADY FANSHAWE. 103 

most violent manner, and being in the Bay 
of Biscay, we had a hurricane that drew 
the vessel up from the water, which had nei- 
ther sail nor mast left, and but six men and 
a boy ; whilst they had hopes of life they 
ran swearing about like devils, but when 
that failed them they ran into holes, and 
let the ship drive as it would. In this great 
hazard of our lives we were the beginning 
of the third night, when God in mercy 
ceased the storm of a sudden, and thei*e 
was a great calm, which made us exceed- 
ing joyful; but when those beasts, for they 
were scarce men, that manned the vessel 
began to rummage the bark, they could not 
find their compass anywhere, for the loss 
of which they began again such horrible 
lamentations as were as dismal to us as the 
storm past. 

Thus between hope and fear we passed 
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where tliey were, and truly we believed 
them ; for with fear and drink I think they 
were bereaved of their senses. So soon as it 
w^as day, about six o'clock, the master cried 
out, 'the land! the land!' but we did not 
receive the news with the joy belonging to it, 
but sighing said, God's will be done! Thus 
the tide drove us until about five o'clock in 
the afternoon, and drawing near the side of 
a small rock that had a creek by it, we ran 
aground, but the sea was so calm that we 
all got out without the loss of any man or 
goods, but the vessel was so shattered that 
it w^as not afterw^ards serviceable ; thus, 
God be praised ! we escaped this great dan- 
ger, and found ourselves near a little village 
about two leagues from Nantz. We hired 
there six asses, upon which we rode as many 
as could by turns, and the rest carried our 
goods. This journey took us up all the next 
day, for I should have told you that we 



LADY FATSrSHAWE. 105 

stirred not that night, because we sat up 
and made good cheer, for beds they had 
none, and we were so transported that we 
thought we had no need of any ; but we 
had very good fires and Nantz white wine 
and butter, and milk, and walnuts and eggs, 
and some very bad cheese ; and was not 
this enough, with the escape of shipwreck, 
to be thought better than a feast? I am 
sure until that hour I never knew such 
pleasure in eating, between which we a 
thousand times repeated what we had spoken 
when every word seemed to be our last. 

As soon as it was day we began oiir journey 
towards Nantz, and by the way we passed 
by a little poor chapel, at the door of which 
a friar begged an alms, saying, that he 
would show us there the greatest wonder in 
the world. We resolved to go with him : 
he went before us to the altar, and out of a 
cupboard, with great devotion, he took a 



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box, and crossing himself he opened it, in 
that was another of crystal that contained 
a little silver box ; he hfting this crystal 
box up, cried, ' Behold in this the hem of St. 
Joseph, which was taken as he hewed his 
timber !' To which my husband repUed, 
' Indeed, Father, it is the lightest, consider- 
ing the greatness, that I ever handled in my 
life.' The ridiculousness of this with the 
simpUcity of the man entertained us till we 
came to Nantz. We met by the way good 
grapes and walnuts growing, of which we 
culled out the best. 

Nantz is a passable good town, but decay- 
ed: some monasteries in it, but none good 
nor rich. There was in a nunnery, when I was 
there, a daughter of Secretary Windebank ; 
there is English provisions, and of all sorts, 
cheap and good. We hired a boat to carry 
us up to Orleans, and we were towed up all 
the river of Loire so far ; every night we 



LADY FANSHAWE. 107 

went on shore to bed, and every morning 
carried into the boat wine and fruit, and 
bread with some flesh, which we dressed in 
the boat, for it had a hearth, on which we 
burnt charcoal : we hkewise caught carps, 
which were the fattest and the best I ever 
eat in my hfe. And of all my travels none 
were, for travel sake as I may call it, so 
pleasant as this, for we saw the finest cities, 
seats, woods, meadows, pastures, and cham- 
paign that I ever saw in my life, adorned with 
the most pleasant river of Loire ; of which, at 
Orleans, we took our leaves by arriving, about 
the middle of November, l650, at Paris. 

We went so soon as we could get clothes 
to wait on the Queen-mother and the 
Princess Henrietta. The Queen entertain- 
ed us very respectfully, and after many fa- 
vours done us, and discoursing in private 
with your father about affairs of state, 
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to the King, who was then on his way to 
Scotland. We kissed her hand and went 
to Calais, with resolution that I should go 
to England, to send my husband more 
money, for this long journey cost us all we 
could procure ; yet this I will tell you, 
praised be God for his peculiar grace here, 
in that your father nor I ever borrowed 
money nor owed for clothes, nor diet, nor 
lodging beyond sea in our lives, which was 
very much, considering the straits we 
were in many times, and the bad custom 
our countrymen had that way, which did 
redound much to the King s dishonour and 
their own discredit. 

When we came to Calais my husband 
sent me to England, and staying himself 
there, intending, as soon as he had received 
money, to go and live in Holland until 
such time as it should please Almighty God 
to enable him again to wait on his Majesty, 



LADY FANSHAWE. 109 

now in Scotland, both to give him an 
account of his journey into Spain, as of the 
rest of his employments since he kissed 
his hand, but God ordered it otherwise ; 
for the case being that the two parties 
in Scotland being both unsatisfied with 
each others' ministers, and Sir E. Hyde 
and Secretary Nicholas being excepted 
against, and left in Holland, it was pro- 
posed, the state wanting a Secretary for the 
King, that your father should be imme- 
diately sent for, which was done accordingly, 
and he went with letters and presents from 
the Princess of Orange, and the Princess 
Royal. 

Here I will show you something of Sir 
Edward Hyde's nature : he being surprised 
with this news, and suspecting that my 
husband might come to a greater power 
than himself, both because of his parts and 
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sometimes absent in the Spanish Embassy, 
he with all the humility possible, and 
earnest passion, begged my husband to 
remember the King often of him to his 
advantage as occasion should serve, and 
to procure leave that he might wait on 
the King, promising, with all the oaths that 
he could express to cause belief, that he 
would make it his business all the days of 
his life to serve your father's interest in 
what condition soever he should be in ; 
thus they parted, with your father's pro- 
mise to serve him in what he was capable 
of, upon which account many letters passed 
between them. 

When your father arrived in Scotland, 
he was received by the King with great 
expressions of great content; and after he 
had given an account of his past employ- 
ment, he was by the King recommended 
to the York party, who received him very 



I.ADY FANSHAWE. Ill 

kindly, and gave him both the broad seal 
and signet to keep. 

They several times pressed him to take 
the Covenant, but he never did, but fol- 
lowed his business so close, with such dili- 
gence and temper, that he was well beloved 
on all sides, and they reposed great trust 
in him. When he went out of Holland, he 
wrote to me to arm myself with patience in 
his absence, and likewise that I would not 
expect many letters as was his custom, for 
that was now impossible ; but he hoped, 
that when we did meet again, it would be 
happy and of long continuance, and bade me 
trust God with him as he did me, in whose 
mercy he hoped, being upon that duty he was 
obliged to, with a thousand kind expressions. 

But God knows how great a surprise this 
was to me, being great with child, and two 
children with me, not in the best condition 
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father upon the private account of animosities 
amongst themselves in Scotland; but I did 
what I could to arm myself, and was kindly 
visited by both my relations and friends. 

About this time my cousin Evelyn's 
wife came to London, and had newly bu- 
ried her mother, my Lady Brown, wife 
to Sir Richard Brown, that then was resi- 
dent for the King at Paris. A little before 
she and I and Doctor Steward, a Clerk of 
the closet to King Charles the First, christ- 
ened a daughter of Mr. Waters, near a 
year old. About this time, Lord Chief 
Justice Heath died at Calais, and several 
of the King's servants at Paris, amongst 
others Mr. Henry Murray, of his bed-cham- 
ber, a very good man. 

I now settled myself in a handsome lodg- 
ing in London : with a heavy heart I stayed 
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LADY FANSHAWE. 113 

in that time I did not go abroad seven times, 
but spent my time in prayer to God for 
the deliverance of the King and my hus- 
band, whose danger was ever before my 
eyes. I was seldom without the best com- 
pany, and sometimes my father would stay 
a week, for all had compassion on my con- 
dition. I removed to Queen-street, and 
there in a very good lodging I was upon 
the 24th of June delivered of a daughter : 
in all this time I had but four letters from 
your father, which made the pain I was in 
more difficult to bear, 

I went with my brother Fanshawe to 
Ware Park, and my sister went to BalFs, to 
my father, both intending to meet in the 
winter, and so indeed we did with tears ; 
for the 2nd of September following was 
fought the battle of Worcester, when the 
King being missed, and nothing heard of 
your father being dead or alive, for three 

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days it was inexpressible what affliction I 
was in. I neither eat nor slept, but trembled 
at every motion I heard, expecting the fatal 
news, which at last came in their news-book, 
which mentioned your father a prisoner. 

Then with some hopes I went to London, 
intending to leave my little girl Nan, the 
companion of my troubles, there, and so 
find out my husband wheresoever he was 
carried; but upon my coming to London, 
I met a messenger from him with a letter, 
which advised me of his condition, and told 
me he was very civilly used, and said little 
more, but that I should be in some room 
at Charing-cross, where he had promise 
from his keeper that he should rest there 
in my company at dinner-time ; this was 
meant to him as a great favour. I ex- 
pected him with impatience, and on the day 
appointed provided a dinner and room, 
as ordered, in which I was with my fa- 



LADY FANSHAWE. 115 

ther and some more of our friends, where, 
about eleven of the clock, we saw hundreds 
of poor soldiers, both English and Scotch, 
march all naked on foot, and many with 
your father, who was very cheerful in ap- 
pearance, who after he had spoken and sa- 
luted me and his friends there, said, ' Pray 
let us not lose time, for I know not how little 
I have to spare ; this is the chance of war ; 
nothing venture, nothing have ; so let us sit 
down and be merry whilst we may ;' then 
taking my hand in his and kissing me, 'Cease 
weeping, no other thing upon earth can move 
me; remember we are all at God's disposal/ 
Then he began to tell how kind his 
Captain was to him, and the people as he 
passed offered him money, and brought 
him good things, and particularly Lady 
Denham, at Boston-house, who would have 
given him all the money she had in her 
house, but he returned her thanks, and told 

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her he had so ill kept his own, that he 
would not tempt his governor with more, 
but if she would give him a shirt or two, 
and some handkerchiefs, he would keep 
them as long as he could for her sake. She 
fetched him two smocks of her ow^n, and 
some handkerchiefs, saying she was ashamed 
to give him them, but, having none of her 
sons at home, she desired him to wear them. 

Thus we passed the time until order came 
to carry him to Whitehall, where, in a little 
room yet standing in the bowling-green, he 
was kept prisoner, without the speech of 
any, so far as they knew, ten weeks, and 
in expectation of death. They often exa- 
mined him, and at last he grew so ill in 
health by the cold and hard marches he 
had undergone, and being pent up in a room 
close and small, that the scurvy brought him 
almost to death's door. 

During the time of his imprisonment, I 



LADY FANSHAWE. 117 

failed not constantly to go, when the clock 
struck four in the morning, with a dark lan- 
tern in my hand all alone and on foot, from 
my lodging in Chancery Lane, at my cousin 
Young's, to Whitehall, in at the entry that 
went out of King Street into the bowling- 
green. There I would go under his window 
and softly call him, he, after the first time ex- 
cepted, never failed to put out his head at the 
first call, thus we talked together, and some- 
times I was so wet with the rain, that it went 
in at my neck and out at my heels. He 
directed how I should make my addresses, 
which I did ever to their general, Cromwell, 
who had a great respect for your father, and 
would have bought him off to his service 
upon any terms. 

Being one day to sohcit for my husband's 
liberty for a time, he bid me bring the next 
day a certificate from a physician, that he was 
really ill. Immediately I went to Dr. Batters, 



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that was by chance both physician to Crom- 
well and to our family, who gave me one very 
favourable in my husband's behalf. I deU- 
vered it at the Council Chamber, at three of 
the clock that afternoon, as he commanded 
me, and he himself moved, that seeing they 
could make no use of his imprisonment, 
whereby to lighten them in their business, 
that he might have his liberty upon four 
thousand pounds bail, to take a course of 
physic, he being dangerously ill. Many 
spake against it, but most Sir Henry Vane, 
who said he would be as instrumental for 
aught he knew, to hang them all that sat 
there, if ever he had opportunity, but if he 
had liberty for a time, that he might take 
the engagement before he went out ; upon 
which Cromwell said, ' I never knew that 
the engagement was a medicine for the 
scorbutic/ They, hearing their General say 
so, thought it obliged him, and so ordered 



LADY FANSHAWE. 119 

him his hberty upon bail. His eldest 
brother and sister Bedell, and self, were 
bound in four thousand pounds ; and the 
latter end of November he came to my 
lodgings, at my cousin Young's. He there 
met many of his good friends and kindred, 
and my joy was inexpressible, and so was 
poor Nan\ of whom your poor father was 
very fond. I forgot to tell you, that when 
your father was taken prisoner of war, he, 
before they entered the house where he was, 
burned all his papers, which saved the lives 
and estates of many a brave gentleman. 

When he came out of Scotland, he left 
behind him a box of writings, in which his 
patent of Baronet was, and his patent of ad- 
ditional arms, which was safely sent after 
him, after the happy restoration of the King. 
You may read your father's demeanour of 
himself in this affair, wrote by his own hand, 
in a book by itself amongst your books, and 



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it is a great masterpiece, as you will 
find. 

Within ten days he fell very sick, and the 
fever settled in his throat and face so vio- 
lently, that, for many days and nights, he 
slept no more but as he leaned on my 
shoulder as I walked : at last, after all the 
Doctor and Surgeon could do, it broke, and 
with that he had ease, and so recovered, 
God be praised ! In 1652, he was advised 
to go to Bath for his scorbutic that still 
hung on him, but he deferred his journey 
until August, because I was delivered on the 
30th of July of a daughter. 

At his return, we went to live that winter 
following at Benford, in Hertfordshire, a 
house of my niece Fanshawe's. In this winter 
my husband went to wait on his good friend, 
the Earl of Strafford, in Yorkshire ; and 
there my Lord offered him a house of his in 
Tankersly Park, which he took, and paid 



LADY FANSHAWE. 121 

120/. a year for. When my husband re- 
turned, we prepared to go in the spring to 
this place, but were so confined, that my hus- 
band could not stir five miles from home with- 
out leave. About February following, my 
brother News died, at his house, at Much 
Hadham, in Hertfordshire. My sister, 
Margaret Harrison, desired to go to Lon- 
don, and there we left her: she soon after 
married Mr. Edmund Turner, afterwards Sir 
Edmund. 

In March we with our three children, 
Anne, Richard, and Betty, went into York- 
shire, where we lived a harmless country 
life, minding only the countrj^ sports and 
country affairs. Here my husband trans- 
lated Lues de Camoens ; and on October 
8th, 1653, I was delivered of my daughter 
Margaret. I found all the neighbourhood 
very civil and kind upon all occasions ; the 
place plentiful and healthful, and very plea- 



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sanl, but there was no fruit : we planted 
some, and my Lord Strafford says now, 
that what we planted is the best fruit in 
the North. 

The house of Tankersly and Park are both 
very pleasant and good, and we lived there 
with great content ; but God had ordered it 
should not last, for upon the 20th of July, 
l654, at three o'clock in the afternoon, 
died our most dearly beloved daughter, 
Ann, whose beauty and wit exceeded all that 
ever I saw of her age. She was between 
nine and ten years old, very tall, and the 
dear companion of my travels and sorrows. 
She lay sick but five days of the small-pox, 
in which time she expressed so many wise 
and devout sayings, as is a miracle for 
her years. We both wished to have gone 
into the same grave with her. She lies 
buried in Tankersly church ; and her death 
made us both desirous to quit that fatal 



LADY FANSHAWE. 123 

place to us ; and so the week after her 
death we did, and came to Homerton, and 
were half a year with my sister Bedell. 
Then my husband was sent for to London, 
there to stay, by command of the High 
Court of Justice, and not to go five miles 
from that town, but to appear once a month 
before them. We then went again to my 
cousin Young's, in Chancery Lane ; and 
about Christmas my husband got leave to 
go to Frog-Pool, in Kent, to my brother 
Warwick's ; where, upon the 22nd of Fe- 
bruary, 1655, I was delivered of a daugh- 
ter, whom we named Ann, to keep in re- 
membrance her dear sister, whom we had 
newly lost. We returned to our lodgings 
in Chancery Lane, where my husband was 
forced to attend till Christmas, 1655; and 
then we went down to Jenkins, to Sir 
Thomas Fanshawe's; but upon New Year's 
day my husband fell very sick, and the 



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scorbutic again prevailed, so much that it 
drew his upper Up awry, upon which we 
that day came to London, into Chancery 
Lane, but not to my cousin Young's, but 
to a house we took of Sir George Cuney, 
for a year. There by the advice of Doctor 
Bathurst and Doctor Ridgley, my husband 
took physic for two months together, and 
at last, God be praised! he perfectly reco- 
vered his sickness, and his lip was as well 
as ever. 

In this house, upon the 12th day of July, in 
1656, I was delivered of a daughter, named 
Mary, and in this month died my second 
daughter, EHzabeth, that I had left with 
my sister Boteler, at Frog-Pool, to see if 
that air would recover her ; but she died of 
a hectic fever, and lies buried in the 
church of Foot's Cray. My husband, weary 
of the town, and being advised to go into 
the country for his health, procured leave 
to go in September, to Bengy, in Hert- 



LADY FANSHAWE. 125 

ford, to a little house lent us by my brother 
Fanshawe. 

It happened at that time there was a 
very ill kind of fever, of which many 
died, and it ran generally through all 
families : this we and all our familv fell sick 
of, and my husband's and mine after some 
months turned to quartan agues, but I 
being with child, none thought I could live, 
for I was brought to bed of a son in Novem- 
ber,* ten weeks before my time ; and thence 
forward until April, 1658, I had two fits 
every day, that brought me so low that I 
was like an anatomy. I never stirred out 
of my bed seven months, nor during that 
time eat flesh nor fish, nor bread, but sage 
posset drink, and pancake or eggs, or now 
and then a turnip or carrot. Your father 
was likewise very ill, but he rose out of his 
bed some hours daily, and had such a gree- 

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diness upon him, that he would eat and 
drink more than ordinary persons that eat 
most, though he could not stand upright 
without being held, and in perpetual sweats, 
and that so violent that it ran down day and 
night like water. This I have told you that 
you may see how near dying we were ; for 
which recovery I humbly praise God. He 
got leave in August to go to Bath, which, 
God be praised ! perfectly recovered us, and so 
we returned into Hertfordshire, to the Friary 
of Ware, which we hired of Mrs. Heydon 
for a year. This place we accounted happy 
to us, because in October we heard the news 
of Cromwell's death, upon which my hus- 
band began to hope that he should get loose 
of his fetters, in which he had been seven 
years; and going to London, in company 
with my Lord Philip, Earl of Pembroke, he 
lamented his case of his bonds to him that 
was his old and constant friend. He told him 



LADY FANSHAWE. 127 

that if he would dine with him the next 
day, he would give him some account of 
that business. The next day he said to him, 
' Mr. Fanshawe, I must send my eldest son 
into France ; if you will not take it ill, that 
I desire your company with him and care 
of him for one year, I will procure you 
your bonds within this week/ My husband 
was oveijoyed to get loose upon any terms 
that were innocent, so having seen his 
bonds cancelled, he went into France to 
Paris, from whence he by letter gave an 
account to Lord Chancellor Clarendon of 
his being got loose, and desired him to 
acquaint his Majesty of it, and to send him 
his commands, which was about April, 1659. 
He did to this effect, that his Majesty was 
then going a journey, which afterwards 
proved to Spain ; but upon his return, 
which would be about the beginning of 
winter, my husband should come to him. 



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and that he should have in present the 
place of one of the Masters of Request, and 
the Secretary of the Latin tongue. Then my 
husband sent me word of this, and bade me 
bring my son Richard, and my eldest 
daughters with me to Paris, for that he 
intended to put them to a very good school 
that he had found at Paris. We went as 
soon as I could possibly accommodate my- 
self with money and other necessaries, with 
my three children, one maid, and one man. 
I could not go without a pass, and to that 
purpose I went to my cousin Henry Nevill, 
one of the High Court of Justice, where he 
was then sittino; at Whitehall. I told him 
my husband had sent for me and his son, to 
place him there, and that he desired his 
kindness to help me to a pass : he went into 
the then masters, and returned to me, say- 
ing, ' that by a trick my husband had got 
his liberty, but for me and his children upon 



LADY FANSHAWE. 129 

no conditions we should not stir/ I made no 
reply, but thanked my cousin Henry Nevill, 
and took my leave. I sat me down in 
the next room, full sadly to consider what 
I should do, desiring God to help me in so 
just a cause as I then was in. I began and 
thought if I were denied a passage then, 
they would ever after be more severe on 
all occasions, and it might be very ill for 
us both. I was ready to go, if I had a 
pass, the next tide, and might be there 
before they could suspect I was gone : these 
thoughts put this invention in my head. 

At Wallingford House, the Office was 
kept where they gave passes : thither I 
went in as plain a way and speech as I 
could devise, leaving my maid at the gate, 
who was much a finer gentlewoman than 
myself. With as ill mien and tone as I 
could express, I told a fellow I found in 
the Office, that I desired a pass for Paris, 

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to go to my husband. ' Woman, what is 
your husband, and your name?' Sir, said 
I, with many courtesies, he is a young mer- 
chant, and my name is Ann Harrison. 
' Well,^ said he, ' it will cost you a crown •/ 
said I, that is a great sum for me, but 
pray put in a man, my maid, and three 
children ; all which he immediately did, 
telling me a malignant would give him five 
pounds for such a pass. 

I thanked him kindly, and so went im- 
mediately to my lodgings ; and with my pen 
I made the great H of Harrison, twoj^', and 
the rrs, an n, and the i, an 5, and the s, an 
A, and the o, an a, and the n, a w^ so com- 
pletely, that none could find out the change. 
With all speed I hired a barge, and that 
night at six o'clock I went to Gravesend, 
and from thence by coach to Dover, where, 
upon my arrival, the searchers came and 
demanded my pass, which they were to keep 



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for their discharge. When they had read 
it, they said, ' Madam, you may go when 
you please ;' but says one, ' 1 httle thought 
they would give a pass to so great a malignant, 
especially in so troublesome a time as this/ 

About nine o'clock at night I went on 
board the packet boat, and about eight 
o'clock in the morning landed safe, God 
be praised, at Calais. I went to Mr. Booth's, 
an English merchant, and a very honest 
man. There I rested two days ; but upon 
the next day he had advice from Dover, 
that a post was sent to stay me from 
London, because they had sent for me to 
my lodgings by a messenger of the Court, 
to know why, and upon what business I 
went to France. Then I discovered to him 
my invention of the changing my name, at 
which as at their disappointment we all 
laughed, and so did your father, and as 
many as knew the deceit. We hired a 

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waggon-coach, for there is no other at 
Calais, and began our journey about the 
beginning of June, 1659* 

Coming one night to Abbeville, the Go- 
vernor sent his Lieutenant to me, to let 
me know my husband was well the week 
before, that he had seen him at Paris, and 
had promised him to take care of me in 
my going through his government, there 
being much robbery daily committing; that 
he would advise me take care of the gar- 
rison soldiers, and giving them a pistole 
a piece they would convey me very safely. 
This he said the Governor would have told 
me himself, but that he was in bed with the 
gout : I thanked him, and accepted his 
proffer. The next morning he sent me ten 
troopers well armed, and when I had gone 
about four leagues, as we ascended a hill, 
says some of these, ' Madam, look out, but 
fear nothing/ They rid all up to a well 
mounted troop of horse, about fifty or 



LADY FAN SH A WE. 133 

more, which after some parley wheeled about 
into the woods again. When we came upon 
the hill, I asked how it was possible so many 
men so well armed should turn, having so 
few to oppose them ; at which they laughed, 
and said, * Madam, we are all of a company, 
and quarter in this town. The truth is, our 
pay is short, and we are forced to keep our- 
selves this way ; but we have this rule, that 
if we in a party guard any company, the 
rest never molest them, but let them pass 
free.^ 

I having passed all danger, as they 
said, gave them a pistole each man, and so 
left them and went on my journey, and 
met my husband at St. Dennts, God be 
praised ! The 20th day of October, my then 
only son died of the small pox ; he lies 
buried in the Protestant Church, near Paris, 
between the Earl of Bristol and Doctor 
Steward. Both my eldest daughters had 
the small pox at the same time, and though 



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1 neglected them, and day and night at- 
tended my dear son, yet it pleased God 
they recovered, and he died, the grief of which 
made me miscarry, and caused a sickness of 
three weeks. 

After this, in the beginning of November, 
the King came to visit his mother, who was 
at her own house at Combes, two leagues 
from Paris, and thither went my husband 
and myself. I had not seen him in almost 
twelve years : he told me that if it pleased 
God to restore him to his kingdoms, my 
husband should partake of his happiness in as 
great a share as any servants he had. Then 
he asked me many questions of England, 
and fell into discourse with my husband 
privately two hours, and then commanded 
him to follow him to Flanders. His Majesty 
w^ent the next day, my husband that day 
month, which was the beginning of De- 
cember. I went with our family to Calais, 



LADY FANSHAWE. 135 

and my husband sent me privately to Lon- 
don for money in January. I returned him 
one hundred and fifty pounds, with which 
he went to the King, and I followed to New- 
port, Bruges, and Ghent, and to Brussels, 
where the King received us very graciously 
with the Princess Royal and the Dukes of 
York and Gloucester. After staying three 
weeks at Brussels, we went to Breda, where 
we heard the happy news of the King's 
return to England. In the beginning of 
May we went with all the Court to the 
Hague, where I first saw the Queen of 
Bohemia, who was exceeding kind to all 
of us. 

Here the King and all the Royal Family 
were entertained at a very great supper by 
the States ; and now business of state took 
up much time. 

The King promised my husband he should 
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the now Duke of Ormond, and the Lord 
Chancellor Clarendon, were witnesses of it, 
yet that false man made the King break 
his word for his own accommodation, and 
placed Mr. Norris, a poor country gentle- 
man of about two hundred pounds a year, 
a fierce Presbyterian, and one that never 
saw the King^s face : but still promises were 
made of the reversion to your father. 

Upon the King's restoration, the Duke of 
York, then made Admiral, appointed ships 
to carry over the company and servants of 
the King, who were very great. His High- 
ness appointed for my husband and his family 
a third-rate frigate, called the Speedwell ; 
but his Majesty commanded my husband to 
wait on him in his own ship. We had by 
the States'* order sent on board to the King's 
most eminent servants, great store of provi- 
sions : for our family, we had sent on board 
the Speedwell a tierce of claret, a hogshead 



LADY FANSHAWE. 137 

of Rhenish wine, six dozen of fowls, a dozen 
of gammons of bacon, a great basket of 
bread, and six sheep, two dozen of neat's 
tongues, and a great box of sweetmeats. 
Thus taking our leaves of those obliging 
persons we had conversed with in the 
Hague, we went on board upon the 23rd 
of May, about two o'clock in the afternoon. 
The King embarked at four of the clock, 
upon which we set sail, the shore being 
covered with people, and shouts from all 
places of a good voyage, which was se- 
conded with many volleys of shot inter- 
changed : so favourable was the wind, that 
the ships' wherries went from ship to ship to 
visit their friends all night long. But who 
can sufficiently express the joy and gallan- 
try of that voyage, to see so many great 
ships, . the best in the world, to hear the 
trumpets and all other music, to see near 
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with the vast cloths and streamers, the 
neatness and cleanness of the ships, the 
strength and jollity of the mariners, the 
gallantry of the commanders, the vast plenty 
of all sorts of provisions ; but above all, the 
glorious Majesties of the King and his two 
brothers, were so beyond man's expectation 
and expression. The sea was calm, the 
moon shone at full, and the sun suffered not 
a cloud to hinder his prospect of the best 
sight, by whose light and the merciful 
bounty of God he was set safely on shore at 
Dover, in Kent, upon the 25th of May, 1660. 
So great were the acclamations and num- 
bers of people, that it reached like one 
street from Dover to Whitehall : we lay 
that night at Dover, and the next day 
we went in Sir Arnold Brem's coach to- 
wards London, where on Sunday night we 
came to a house in the Savoy. My niece, 
Fanshawe, then lay in the Strand, where I 



LADY FANSHAWE. 139 

stood to see the King's entry with his bro- 
thers ; surely the most pompous show that 
ever was, for the hearts of all men in this 
kingdom moved at his will. 

The next day I went with other ladies of 
the family to congratulate his Majesty's 
happy arrival, who received me with great 
grace, and promised me future favours to 
my husband and self. His Majesty gave 
my husband his picture, set with small dia- 
monds, when he was a child : it is a great 
rarity, because there never was but one. 

We took a house in Portugal Row, Lin- 
coln^s-inn Fields. My husband had not 
long entered upon his office, but he found an 
oppression from Secretary Nicholas, to his 
great vexation, for he, as much as in him 
lay, engrossed all the petitions, which really, 
by the foundation, belonged to the Master of 
the Requests ; and in this he was counte- 
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patron, notwithstanding he had married Sir 
Thomas Aylesbury's daughter, that was one 
of the Masters of the Requests. 

This year I sent for my daughter Nan 
from my sister Boteler's, in Kent, where I 
had left her ; and my daughter Mary 
died in Hertfordshire in August, and lies 
buried in Hertford church, in my father's 
vault. 

In the latter end of the summer I mis- 
carried, when I was near half gone with 
child, of three sons, two hours, one after the 
other. I think it was with the hurry of busi- 
ness I then was in, and perpetual company 
that resorted to us of all qualities, some for 
kindness, and some for their own advantage. 

As that was a time of advantage, so it was 
of great expense, for on April the 23rd, 
1661, the King was crowned, when my 
husband being in waiting, rode upon his 
Majesty's left hand with very rich foot- 
cloths, and four men in very rich liveries ; 



LADY FANSHAWE. J 41 

and this year we furnished our house and 
paid all our debts which we had contracted 
during the war. 

The 8th day of May following, the King 
rode to the Parliament, and then my hus- 
band rode in the same manner. His Ma- 
jesty had commanded my husband to 
execute the place of the Chancellor of 
the Garter, both because he understood it 
better than any, and was to have the rever- 
sion of it. The first feast of St. George, 
my husband was proxy for the Earl of 
Bristol, and was installed for him Knight of 
the Garter. The Duke of Buckingham put 
on his robes, and the Duke of Ormond his 
spurs in the hall of the Earl of Bristol. 

Now it was the business of the Chancellor 
to put your father as far from the King as 
he could, because his ignorance in state 
affairs was daily discovered by your father, 
who showed it to the King ; but at that 
time the King was so content, that he should 



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almost and alone manage his affairs, that he 
might have more time for his pleasure, that 
his faults M^ere not so visible as otherwise 
they would have been and afterwards proved. 
But now he sends to your father, and tells 
him that he was, by the Kings's particular 
choice, resolved on to be sent to Lisbon 
with the King's letter and picture to the 
Princess, now our Queen, which then indeed 
was an employment any nobleman would 
be glad of; but the design from that time 
forth was to fix him here. 

When your father was gone on this errand, 
I stayed in our house in Portugal Row, and at 
Christmas I received the New Year's gifts be- 
longing to his places, which is the custom, of 
two tuns of wine at the Custom-house, for 
Master of Requests, and fifteen ounces of 
gilt plate at the Jewel-house, as Secretarj?- 
of the Latin Tongue. 

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LADY FANSHAWE. 143 

returned from Lisbon, and was very well re- 
ceived by the King, and upon the S2nd of 
February following I was delivered of my 
daughter Elizabeth. 

Upon the 8th of June, 1662, my husband 
was made a Privy Councillor of Ireland ; and 
some time after my Lord and Lady Ormond 
went into Ireland, and upon my taking leave 
of her Grace, she gave me a turquoise and 
diamond bracelet, and my husband a fossil 
diamond ring. I never parted from her upon 
a journey, but she ever gave me some pre- 
sent. When her daughter, the Lady Mary 
Cavendish, was married, none were present 
but his grandmother and father, and my hus- 
band and self: they were married in my Lord 
Duke's lodging in Whitehall, and given by the 
King, who came privately without any train. 

A& soon as the King had notice of the 
Queen's landing, he immediately sent my 
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on shore, and followed himself the next day ; 
and upon the 21st of May the King married 
the Queen at Portsmouth, in the presence- 
chamber of his Majesty's house. 

There was a rail across the upper part of 
the room, in which entered only the King 
and Queen, the Bishop of London, the Mar- 
quess Desande, the Portuguese Ambassador, 
and my husband : in the other part of the 
room there were many of the nobility and 
servants to their Majesties. The Bishop of 
London declared them married in the name of 
the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy 
Ghost ; and then they caused the ribbons her 
Majesty wore to be cut in little pieces, and, 
as far as they would go, every one had some. 

Upon the 29th of May their Majesties 
came to Hampton Court, where was all 
that pretended to her Majesty's service ; 
and all the King's servants, ladies, and 
other persons of quality, who received her 



I.ADY FAN SH AWE. 145 

Majesty in several rooms, according to their 
several qualifications. 

The next morning, about eleven o'clock, 
the Duchess of Ormond and her daughter, 
the now Lady Cavendish, and myself, went to 
wait on her Majesty as soon as her Majesty 
was dressed ; where I had the honour from 
the King, who was then present, to tell the 
Queen who I was, saying many kind things 
of me to ingratiate me with her Majesty, 
whereupon her Majesty gave her hand to 
me to kiss, with promises of her future fa- 
vour. After this we remained in Hampton 
Court, in the Requests' lodgings, my hus- 
band being then in waiting until the lOth 
day of August, upon which day he received 
his despatches for Ambassador to Portugal. 

His Majesty was graciously pleased to 
promise my husband his picture, which 
afterwards we received, set with diamonds, 
to the value of three or four hundred pounds, 

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his Majesty having been pleased to give my 
husband, at his first going to Portugal, his 
picture at length, in his garter-robes : my 
husband had also by his Majesty's order, out 
of the wardrobe, a crimson velvet cloth of 
state, fringed and laced with gold, with a 
chair, a foot-stool, and cushions, and two 
other stools of the same, with a Persia car- 
pet to lay under them, and a suit of fine 
tapestry hanging for that room, with two 
velvet altar cloths for the chapel, and fringed 
with gold, with surplices, altar cloths, and 
napkins, of fine linen, with a Bible, in Ogle- 
by 's print and cuts, two Common Prayer- 
books, in folio and quarto, with eight hundred 
ounces of gilt plate, and four thousand ounces 
of white plate; but there wanted a velvet 
bed, which he should have had by custom. 

Thus having perfected the ceremonies 
of taking leave of their Majesties, and 
receiving their commands, and likewise 



LADY FANSHAWE. 147 

taking our leaves of our friends, as I 
said, upon Sunday the 10th of August we 
took our journey to Portugal, carrying our 
three daughters with us, Katherine, Mar- 
garet, and Ann. This night we lay at 
Windsor, where, on Monday the 11th, in 
the morning, we went to prayers to the 
King's Chapel with Doctor Heavers, my hus- 
band's Chaplain. On our return we were 
visited by the Provost of Eton, and divers 
other of the clergy of that place, and Sir 
Thomas Woodcock, the chief commander of 
that place, in the absence of Lord Mordaunt, 
Lord Constable of Windsor Castle. 

Upon the desire of some there, my hus- 
band left some of his coats-of-arms, which 
he carried with him for that purpose, as the 
custom of the ambassadors is, to dispose of 
where they lodge. 

That night we lay at Bagshot; Tuesday 
the 12th, we dined at Basingstoke, and lay 

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at Andover; Wednesday the 13th, vve dined 
at Salisbury, and there lay that night, and 
borrowed in the afternoon the Dean of West- 
minster's coach, being willing to ease all our 
own horses for half a day, having a long 
journey to go. 

We went in the Dean^s coach to see Wil- 
ton, being but two miles from Salisbury. 
We found Lord Herbert at home ; he enter- 
tained us with great civility and kindness, 
and gave my husband a very fine grey- 
hound bitch : his father, the Earl of Pem- 
broke, being then at London. We visited 
the famous church, and at our return to 
our lodgings, were visited by the Right 
Reverend Father in God, Doctor Hench- 
man, the Bishop of that place, and Doctor 
Holies, the Dean of that place, and Doctor 
Earle, Dean of Westminster, since, by the 
former Bishop's remove to the See of Lon- 
don, now Bishop of Salisbury. 



LADY FANSHAWE. 149 

On Thursday the 14^, my husband and 
I, with our children, having begged of the 
Bishop his blessing at his own house, 
dined at Blandford, in Dorsetshire. Sir Wil- 
liam Portman hath a very fine seat within 
a mile of it. We lodged that night at 
Dorchester : on Friday the loth we lay 

at Axminster, and Saturday the l6th at 
Exeter, and went to prayers at the Cathe- 
dral church, accompanied by the prin- 
cipal divines of that place. On Sunday 
the 17th, we stayed all that day, and on 
Monday the 18th, we lay at a very ill lodg- 
ing, of which I have forgotten the name ; 
and on Tuesday the 19th, we went to Ply- 
mouth, where, within six miles of the town, 
we were met by some of the chief merchants 
of that place, and of the chief officers of 
that garrison, who all accompanied us to 
the house of one Mr. Tyler, a merchant. 
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garrison, one Sir John Skelton, visited us, 
and did us the favour to keep us company, 
with many of his officers, during our stay in 
that town. Sir John Hele, as soon as he heard 
of our being there, sent my husband a fat 
buck; and my cousin Edgcombe, of Mount 
Edgcombe, a mile from Plymouth, sent him 
another buck, and came, as soon as he heard 
we were there, from a house of his twelve 
miles from Mount Edgcombe, to which he 
came only to keep us company. From whence, 
the next day after his arrival, he with his 
Lady, and Sir Richard Edgcombe, his eldest 
son, and others of his children, came to 
visit us at Plymouth ; and the day after we 
dined at Mount Edgcombe, where we were 
very nobly treated. At our coming home, 
they would need accompany us over the 
river to our lodgings. The next day, the 
Mayor and Aldermen came to visit my 
husband ; and the next day we had a great 



LADY FANSHAWE. 151 

feast at Mr. Seale's house, the father of our 
landlord. Our being so well lodged and 
treated by the inhabitants of this town was 
upon my father's score, whose deputies some 
of them were, he being one of the farmers 
of the Custom House to receive the King^s 
customs of that port. 

On Sunday the SOth, the wind coming 
fair, we embarked, accompanied by my 
cousin Edgcombe and all his family, and 
with much company of the town, that would 
show their kindness until the last. Taking 
our leave of our landlord and landlady, 
we gave her twenty pieces of gold to buy 
her a ring, and they presented my children 
with many pretty toys. Thus, on Monday 
at nine o'clock in the morning, we were re- 
ceived on board the Ruby frigate, com- 
manded by Captain Robinson. We had 
very many presents sent us on board by 
divers gentlemen, among which my cousin 



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Edgcombe sent us a brace of fat bucks, 
three milk goats, wine, ale and beer, with fruit 
of several sorts, biscuit and sweetmeats. 

On Monday the 31st of August, 1662, 
we set sail for Lisbon, and landed the 14th 
of September, our stile, between the Conde 
de St. Laurence's house and Belem, God 
be praised ! all in good health. As soon 
as we had anchored, the English Consul, 
with the merchants, came on board us ; but 
we went presently to a country house of 
the Duke of Averos, where my husband 
was placed by his Majesty when he was 
there before, in which he had then left his 
chief Secretary and one other, with some 
others of his family. The first that visited 
incognito there, for he was not to own 
any till he had made his entry, was the 
King of Portugal's Secretary, Antonio de 
Sousa : there came about that time also the 
Earl of Inchiquin, and Count Schomberg, to 



LADY I AN SH AWE. 153 

visit us. The j^th day, my husband went 
privately on board the frigate, in M^hich he 
came with all his family ; to whom the King 
sent a nobleman to receive him on shore 
with his own and Queen-mother's, and very 
many coaches of the nobility. As soon as 
they met, there passed great salutations of 
cannons from the ships to the frigate in which 
my husband came, and from our ships to 
the King's forts, and from all the forts innu- 
merable shots returned again. 

So soon as my husband landed, he entered 
the King's coach, and the nobleman that fetch- 
ed him, whose name I have forgot. Before 
him went the English Consul, with all the mer- 
chants; on his right hand went four pages; on 
the left side the coach, by the horses' heads, 
eight footmen all clothed in rich livery; in the 
coach that followed went my husband's own 
gentlemen, after the coach of state empty, 
and those that did him the favour to accom- 



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pany him ; thus they went to the house 
where my husband lodged ; three suppers 
and three dinners the King entertained him 
with great plenty of provisions in all kinds, 
and all manner of utensils belonging there- 
unto, as the custom of that country is. 

Their Majesties did for some time furnish 
the house till my husband could otherwise 
provide himself in town. The Abadessa of 
the Alcantara, niece to the Queen-mother, 
natural daughter of the Duke de Medina 
Sidonia, sent to welcome me into the coun- 
try, a very noble present of perfumes, wa- 
ters, and sweetmeats : and during my abode 
at Lisbon we often made visits and inter- 
changed messages, to my great content, for 
she was a very fine lady. On the |th one 
Mr. Bridgewood, a merchant, sent me a 
silver basin and ewers for a present. On 
the 10th of October, stilo novo, my husband 
had his audience of his Majesty in his 



LADY FANSHAWE. 155 

palace, at Lisbon ; going in the King^s 
coach with the same nobleman and in the 
same form as he made his entry. The King 
received him with great kindness and re- 
spect, much to his satisfaction. On the 
11th, Don Juan de Sousa, the Queen's 
Viador, came from her Majesty to us both 
to welcome us into the country. On the 
13th, her Majesty sent her chief coach, ac- 
companied by other coaches, to fetch my 
husband to the audience of her Majesty, 
where she received him very graciously; 
and the same day he had audience of Don 
Pedro, the King's brother, at his own palace. 
Saturday, the 14th, her Majesty sent her 
best coach for me and my children. When 
we came there, the Captain of the Guard 
received me at the foot of the stairs ; all 
my people going before me, as the custom is. 
On each side were the guards placed, with 
halberds in their hands, as far as the pre- 



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sence-ch'diiiber door. There I was received 
by the Queen's Lord Chamberlain, who car- 
ried me to the door of the next room, where 
the Queen was. Then the Queen's principal 
lady, as our groom of the stole, received 
me, telling me she had command from the 
Queen to bid me welcome to that Court, 
and to accompany me to her Majesty's pre- 
sence. She sat in the next room, which 
was very large, in a black velvet chair, with 
arms, upon a black velvet carpet, with a 
state of the same. She had caused a low 
chair, without arms, to be set at some dis- 
tance from her, about two yards on her left 
hand, on which side stood all the noble- 
men ; on her right, all the ladies of the 
Court. 

After making my reverences due to her 
Majesty, according to custom, and said those 
respects which became me to her Majesty, 
she sat down ; and when I presented my 



I.ADY FANSHAWE. 157 

daughters to her, she, having expressed 
much grace and favour to me and mine, bade 
me sit down, which at first I refused, de- 
siring to wait on her Majesty, as my Queen's 
mother; but she pressing me again, I sat 
down ; and then she made her discourse 
of England, and asked questions of the 
Queen's health and liking of our country, 
with some little hints of her own and her 
family's condition, which having continued 
better than half an hour, I took my leave. 
During my stay at Court I several times 
waited on the Queen-mother ; truly she 
was a very honourable wise woman, and I 
believe had been very handsome. She was 
magnificent in her discourse and nature, but 
in the prudentest manner; she was ambi- 
tious, but not vain ; she loved government, 
and I do believe the quitting of it did shorten 
her life. 

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of the Court, I went home as I came. The 
next day the Secretary of State and his 
Lady came to visit me : she had, at my 
arrival, sent me a present of sweetmeats. 
My husband had left in this person's family 
one of his pages to improve himself in writ- 
ing and reading the Spanish tongue, until 
his return again to that Court, when he went 
the last year to England, in consideration of 
which we presented his Lady with a piece 
of India plate, of about two hundred pounds 
sterling. They were both very civil, worthy 
persons, and had formerly been in England, 
where the King, Charles the First, had made 
his son an English Baron. She told me ih 
discourse one day this of a French Ambas- 
sador, that had lately been in that Court, 
and lodged next to her : — 

There was a numerous sort of people about 
the Ambassador's door, as is usual amongst 
them. A poor little boy, that his mother had 



LADY FANSIIAWE. 159 

animated daily to cry for relief so trouble- 
somely, that at last the Ambassador would 
say, * What noise is that at the gate of per- 
petual screaming? I will have it so no more:' 
upon which they carried the child to his 
mother, and bade her keep him at home, for 
it screamed like a devil, and if it returned, 
the porter swore he would punish him se- 
verely. Not many days after, according to 
his former custom, the child returned louder 
than before, if possible ; the porter keeping 
his word, took the boy and pulled off his 
rags, and anointed him all over with honey, 
leaving no part undone, and very thick, and 
then threw him into a tub of fine feathers, 
which as soon as he had done, he set him 
on his legs and frightened him home to his 
mother, who seeing this thing, for none 
living could guess him a boy, ran out into 
the city, the child squeaking after her, and 
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thinking it was a devil or some strange crea- 
ture. 

But to return to the business : we were 
visited by many persons of the Court, some 
upon business, and others upon comphment, 
which is more formal than pleasant, for they 
are not generally a cheerful people. About 
February the King intended to go into the 
field and lead his army himself: during this 
resolution my husband prepared himself to 
wait on his Majesty, which cost him much, 
these kind of expences in that place being 
scarce and very dear ; but the Council would 
not suffer him to go, and so that ended. 
The King loved hunting much, and ever, 
when he went, would send my husband some 
of what he killed, which was stag and wild 
boar, both excellent meat. We kept the 
Queen's birthday with great feasting: we had 
all the English merchants. 



LADY FANSHAWE. 161 

There was, during my stay in this town, a 
Portugal merchant jealous of his mistress 
favouring an Englishman, whom he enter- 
tained with much kindness, hiding his sus- 
picion. One evening he invited him to see 
a country-house and eat a collation, which 
he did, after which the merchant, with three 
or four more of his friends, for a rarity 
showed him a cave hard by the house, which 
went in at a very narrow hole, but within was 
very capacious, in the side of a high moun- 
tain. It was so dark that they carried a torch : 
says one to the Enghshman, ^ Did you ever 
know where bats dwell ?' he replied no, 
' Then here. Sir/ say they, ' you shall see 
them;' then, holding up the light to the 
roof, they saw millions hanging by their legs. 
So soon as they had done they, frightening 
the birds, made them all fly about him, and 
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the Englishman there to get out as well 
as he could, which w^as not until the next 
morning. 

This winter I fell sick of an aguish dis- 
temper, being then with child, but I believe 
it was with eating more grapes than I am 
accustomed to, being tempted by their good- 
ness, especially the Frontiniac, which ex- 
ceed all I ever eat in Spain and France. 

The beginning of May, 1663, there hap- 
pened in Lisbon an insurrection of the peo- 
ple of the town, about a suspicion, as they 
pretended, of some persons disaffected to the 
public ; upon which they plundered the 
Archbishop's house, and the Marquis of 
Marialva's house, and broke into the trea- 
sury ; but after about ten thousand of these 
ordinary people had run for six or seven 
hours about the town, crying ' Kill all that is 
for the Castile,' they were appeased by their 
Priests, who carried the Sacrament amongst 



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them, threatening excommunication, which 
with the night made them depart with their 
plunder. Some few persons were lost, but 
not many. 

Upon the 10th of June came news to this 
Court of the total rout of Don John of Aus- 
tria at the battle of Evora; after which 
our house and tables were full of distressed, 
honest, brave English soldiers, who by their 
own and their fellows' valour had got one 
of the greatest victories that ever was. 

These poor but brave men were almost 
lost between the Portuguese poverty and the 
Lord Chancellor Hyde's neglect, not to give 
it a worse name. While my husband staid 
there he did what he could, but not pro- 
portionably either to their merits or wants. 

About this time my husband sent great 
assistance to the Governor of Tangiers, the 
Earl of Peterborough then being Governor, 
whose letters of supplication and thanks for 

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kindness and care, nmy husband and I have 
vet to show. 

June the 26th, I was dehvered of a son 
ten weeks before my time : he Hved some 
hours, and was christened Richard by our 
Chaplain, Mr. Marsden, who performed the 
ceremony of the Church of England at his 
burial, and then laid him in the Parish 
Church in which we lived, in the principal 
part of the chancel. 

The Queen sent to condole with me for 
the loss of my son, and the Marquis de 
Castel Melhar, the Marquis de Nica, the 
Condessa de Villa Franca, Donna Maria de 
Antonia, with many other ladies, and seve- 
ral good gentlewomen that were English 
merchants' wives. 

Several times we saw the Feasts of Bulls, 
and at them had great voiders of dried 
sweetmeats brought us upon the King's 
account, with rich drinks. 



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Once we had some dispute about some 
English Commanders that thought them- 
selves not well enough placed at the show, 
according to their merit, by the King^s offi- 
cers, which did so ill represent to my hus- 
band that he was extremely concerned at it. 
Upon notice being given to the Chief Mi- 
nister, the Conde de Castel Melhar came 
from the King to my husband, after having 
examined the business, and desired that 
there might be no misunderstanding between 
the King and him, that the business was 
only the impertinence of a servant, and that 
it might so pass. My husband was well 
satisfied, and presented his most humble 
acknowledgements to the King for his care 
and favour to him, as well as the honour 
he had received. The Conde de Castel, 
when he had finished his visit to my hus- 
band, came to my apartment, and told me 
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what had passed, because the King had heard 
I was sad to see my husband troubled ; 
assuring me that his Majesty and the whole 
Court desired nothing more than that we 
should receive all content imaginable. I 
gave him many thanks for the honour of 
his visit, and desired him to present my 
humble service to the King, assuring him, 
that my husband and I had all the respect 
imaginable for his Majesty : true, it was 
according to the English fashion, I did 
make a little whine when I saw my hus- 
band disordered, but I should ever remain 
his Majesty's humble servant, with my most 
humble thanks to his Excellency ; and so he 
returned well satisfied. 

The 14th, the Chief Ministers met my 
husband in order to his return home for 
England, and expressed a great trouble to 
part from him: they from the King pre- 
sented my husband with twelve thousand 



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crowns in gold plate, with many compli- 
ments and favours from the King, whom 
my husband waited on the next day to 
receive his Majesty's commands for his Mas- 
ter in England. After giving his Majesty 
many thanks for the many honours he had 
received from his Majesty's kind acceptance 
of his service, he thanked his Majesty 
for his present, saying that he wished his 
Majesty's bounteous kindness to him might 
not prejudice his Majesty, in this example, 
by the next coming ambassador ; to which 
his Majesty replied, 'I am sure it cannot, for 
I shall never have such another ambassador/ 
Then my husband took his leave, performing 
all those ceremonies with the same persons 
and coaches as he made at his entry. 

Upon the 19th of August my husband 
and I took our leaves of the Queen-mother, 
at her house, who had commanded all her 
ladies to give attendance, though her Ma- 



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jesty was then in a retired condition. Her 
Majesty expressed much resentment at our 
leaving the Court ; and after our respects 
paid to her Majesty, and I receiving her 
Majesty's commands to our Queen, with a 
present, I took my leave with the same cere- 
mony of coaches and persons as I had 
waited on her Majesty twice before. 

Upon the 20th, my husband took his leave 
of Don Pedro, his Majesty's brother. The 
21st of August, the Secretary of State came 
to visit me from the King and Queen, wish- 
ing me a prosperous voyage, and presented 
me with a very noble present. The same 
day I took my leave of my good neighbour, 
the Condessa de Palma, as I had done of all 
the ladies of my acquaintance before, who 
all presented me with fine presents, as did 
my good neighbour, the Countess St. 
Acrasse, who had with her when I went to 
take my leave many persons of quality, that 



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came on purpose there to take their leaves 
of me, and from whom I received great civi- 
lity ; and the Countess gave me a very great 
banquet. 

On the 23rd of August, 1663, we, accom- 
panied by many persons of all sorts, went 
on board the King of England's frigate, 
called the Reserve, commanded by Captain 
Holmes, where as soon as I was on board, 
the Conde de Castel Melhar sent me a 
very great and noble present, a part of 
which was the finest case of waters that 
ever I saw, being made of Brazil wood, 
garnished with silver, the bottles of crystal, 
garnished with the same, and filled with 
rich amber water. 

Lisbon with the river, is the goodliest 
situation that ever I saw ; the city old and 
decayed ; but they are making new walls of 
stone, which will contain six times their 
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best built, the finest adorned, and the clean- 
Uest kept of any churches in the world. 
The people delight much in quintas, which 
are a sort of country houses, of which there 
are abundance within a few leagues of the 
city, and those that belong to the nobility 
are very fine, both houses and gardens. The 
nation is generally very civil and obhging. 
In religion divided, between Papists and Jews. 
The people generally not handsome. They 
have many religious houses, and bishopricks 
of great revenue ; and the religious of both 
sexes are for the most part very strict. 

Their fruits of all kinds are extraordinary 
good and fair ; their wine rough for the most 
part, but very wholesome ; their corn dark 
and gritty ; water bad, except some few 
springs far from the city. Their flesh of 
all kinds indifferent ; their mules and asses 
extraordinary good and large, but their 



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horses few and naught. They have little 
wood and less grass. 

At my coming away I visited several 
nunneries, in one whereof I was told, that 
the last year there was a girl of fourteen years 
of age burnt for a Jew. She was taken from 
her mother as soon as she was born, in pri- 
son, her mother being condemned, and 
brought up in the Esperanza: Although she 
never heard, as they did to me afSfirm, what a 
Jew was, she did daily scratch and whip 
the crucifixes, and run pins into them in 
private ; and when discovered confessed it, 
and said she would never adore that God. 

On Thursday August 25th,* 1663, we set 
sail for England. On the 4th of September, 
our style, being Friday, we landed at Deal, 
all in good health, God be praised ! 

Saturday 5th, we went to Canterbury, 

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and there tarried Sunday, where we went 
to church, and very many of the gentlemen 
of Kent came to welcome us into England. 

And here I cannot omit relating the 
ensuing story, confirmed by Sir Thomas 
Batten, Sir Arnold Breames, the Dean of 
Canterbury, with many more gentlemen and 
persons of this town. 

There lives not far from Canterbury a 
gentleman, called Colonel Colepeper, whose 
mother was widow unto the Lord Strang- 
ford : this gentleman had a sister, who lived 
with him, as the world said, in too much 
love. She married Mr. Porter. This bro- 
ther and sister being both atheists, and 
living a life according to their profession, 
went in a frolick into a vault of their ances- 
tors, where, before they returned, they pulled 
some of their father's and mother's hairs. 
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sick and died. Her brother kept her body in 
a coffin set up in his buttery, saying it 
would not be long before he died, and then 
they would be both buried together ; but 
from the night after her death, until the 
time that we were told the story, which was 
three months, they say that a head, as cold 
as death, with curled hair like his sister's, did 
ever lie by him wherever he slept, not- 
withstanding he removed to several places 
and countries to avoid it ; and several per- 
sons told us they had felt this apparition. 

On Monday, the 7th of September, we 
went to Gravesend, and from thence by 
water to Dorset House, in Salisbury Court, 
where we stayed fifteen days. The 8th of 
September, 1663, within two hours after our 
arrival, we were visited by very many 
kindred and friends, amongst whom his 
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day and dined with us. The same day came 
the Bishop of Winchester, as did many 
others of the greatest clergy in England. 

Upon the 10th of September, my husband 
went to Bath, to wait upon his Majesty, who 
was then there : his Majesty graciously re- 
ceived him, and for a confirmation that he 
approved his service in his negociation in 
Portugal, he was pleased to make him a 
Privy Counsellor. He was also very graciously 
received by her Majesty, the Queen. Being 
indisposed with a long journey, my husband 
fell sick, but it continued but two days, 
thanks be to God ! 

On the 17th he went by Cornbury, where 
the Lord Chancellor then was, and so to 
London, and, in his absence, I, on the l6th, 
took a house in Boswell Court, near Temple 
Bar, for two years, immediately moving all 
my goods thereto, as well those, which were 
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in her house in my absence, as those that I 
brought with me out of Portugal, which were 
seventeen cart loads. 

Upon Saturday, the 19th, my husband 
returned from his Majesty, and met me at 
our new house in Boswell Court. 

On Monday, the 21st, being at a great 
feast at my sister Turner's, where there met 
us very many of our friends upon the same 
invitation, whereof Sir John Cutler was one, 
who after dinner brought me a box, saying, 
' Madam, this was to go to Portugal, but 
that I heard your Ladyship was landed.' 
In it there was a piece of cloth of tissue 
for me, and ribbons and gloves for my chil- 
dren. Whilst we were at dinner, there came 
an express from Court, with a warrant to 
swear my husband a Privy Counsellor, from 
Sir Henry Bennet. The 22nd we went down 
to Hertfordshire, to my brother Fanshawe's ; 
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were nobly feasted with great kindness, and 
to add to my content, I there met with my 
little girl Betty, whom I had left at nurse, 
within two miles of that place, at my going 
to Portugal. After being entertained at 
Sir Francis Boteler's, our very good friend, 
we went to St. Albans, to bed, where, the 
next day, we bought some coach-horses, 
and on the 26th, we returned to London. 

On Tuesday, the 29th, we went again to 
St. Albans, where my husband bought eight 
more coach-horses ; the same night we re- 
turned to London. 

On the 1st of October, my husband was 
sworn a Privy Counsellor, in the presence 
of his Majesty, his Royal Highness, and 
the greatest part of his Majesty's most 
honourable Privy Council. On the 3rd, my 
husband waited on her Majesty, the Queen- 
mother, who received him with great kind- 
ness : the 4th I waited on her Majesty at 



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Whitehall, and there delivered the present 
which the Queen-mother of Portugal had 
sent her Majesty, who received both them 
and me in her bed-chamber, with great 
expressions of kindness. I staid with her 
Majesty about an hour and a half, which 
she spent in asking questions of her mo- 
ther, brothers, and country ; after which 
I waited on her Majesty in the drawing- 
room, whereinto the King entered pre- 
sently after, and I seeing the King retired to 
the side of the room, where his Majesty 
came to me presently, saluting me, and 
bade me welcome home, with great grace 
and kindness, asking me many questions of 
Lisbon, and the country. 

On Sunday the 4th of October, my hus- 
band took his place as Privy Counsellor in 
the Lords' seat; likewise this day his Grace 
of Canterbury took his seat, and the Bishop 
of Winchester, both in the same place: his 

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Grace of Canterbury did his homage to the 
King. The same day that my husband was 
sworn a Privy Counsellor, I waited on the 
Queen-mother at Somerset House, and the 
Duke and Duchess of York at St. James's, 
who all received me with great cheerful- 
ness and grace. On the 7th the Lord Mayor 
invited all the Lords of the Privy Council 
to dinner, among whom was my husband. 

The 1st of January, l664. New Year's- 
day, my husband as Privy Counsellor pre- 
sented his Majesty with ten pieces of gold 
in a purse ; and the person that carries it 
hath a ticket given him of the receipt thereof, 
from the cupboard of Privy Chamber, where 
it is dehvered to the Master of the Jewel- 
house, who is thereupon to give him twenty 
shillings for his pains, out of which he is to 
give to the servant of the Master of the 
Jewel-house eighteen-pence. 

We received, as the custom is, fifteen 



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ounces of gilt plate for a Privy Counsellor, 
and fifteen ounces for Secretary of the Latin 
Tongue ; likewise we had the impost of four 
tuns of wine, two for a Privy Counsellor, 
and two for a Master of Requests. 

January 15th, I took my leave of the 
King and Queen, who, with great kindness, 
wished me a good voyage to Spain. Then I 
waited on the Queen-mother at Somerset 
House : her Majesty sent for me into her 
bed-chamber, and after some discourse I 
took my leave of her Majesty. Afterwards 
I waited on their Royal Highnesses, who 
received me with more than ordinary kind- 
ness, and after an hour and a halPs dis- 
course with me, saluted me and gave me 
leave to depart. 

On Tuesday, January 19th, my husband 
carried the Speaker, Sir Edward Turner's 
eldest son, and my brother Turner, to the 
King at Whitehall, who conferred the ho- 

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nour of knighthood on them both, my hus- 
band particularly recommending my brother 
Turner to his Majesty's grace and honour. 

On the 20th of January my husband took 
his leave of his Majesty and all the Royal 
Family, receiving the despatches and their 
commands for Spain, from which hour 
to our going out of town, day and night, our 
house was full of kindred and friends taking 
leave of us ; and on Thursday the 21st, 1664, 
in the morning, at eight o'clock, did ren- 
dezvous at Dorset House, in Salisbury- 
Court, in that half of the house which Sir 
Thomas Fanshawe then lived in, who enter- 
tained us with a very good breakfast and 
banquet. The company that came thither 
was very great, as was likewise that which 
accompanied us out of town. Thus, with 
many coaches of our family and friends, we 
took our journey at ten of the clock towards 
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The company of our family was my hus- 
band, myself, and four daughters ; Mr. Bertie, 
son to the Earl of Lindsey, Lord Great 
Chamberlain of England ; Mr. Newport, se- 
cond son to the Lord Baron Newport; Sir 
Benjamin Wright, Baronet ; Sir Andrew 
King ; Sir Edward Turner, Knight, son to 
the Speaker of the Commons^ House of Par- 
liament; and Mr. Francis Godolphin, son to 
Sir Francis Godolphin, Knight of the Bath. 
The most part of them went by water. 

We lay the first night at Guildford, the 
second at Petersfield, the third at Ports- 
mouth, where we staid till the 31st of the 
same month, being very civilly used there 
by the Mayor and his brethren, who made 
my husband a freeman of the town, as their 
custom is to persons of quality that pass 
that way ; and likewise we received many 
favours from the Lieutenant Governor, Sir 
Philip Hony wood, with the rest of the com- 



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manders of that garrison. As I said before, 
we went on board the 31st, being Sunday, 
the Admiral of the Fleet then setting out, 
Sir John Lawson, Chief Commander, in his 
Majesty's ship called the Resolution ; there 
was Captain Bartley, Commander of the 
Bristol frigate, Captain Utbert, Commander 
of the Phoenix, Captain Feme, Commander 
of the Portsmouth, Captain Moon, Com- 
mander of the York, and Sir John Lawson's 
ketch, commanded by Captain King. 

Thus, at ten o'clock, we set sail with a 
good wind, which carried us as far as Tor- 
bay, and then failed us : there we lay till 
Monday the 15th of February, at nine o'clock 
at night, at which, it pleasing God to give 
us a prosperous wind, we set sail, and on 
the 23rd of February, our stile, we cast 
anchor in Cadiz road, in Spain. 

So soon as it was known that we were 
there, the English Consul with the English 



LADY FANSHAWE. 183 

merchants all came on board to welcome 
us to Spain ; and presently after came the 
Lieutenant-Governor from the Governor for 
the time being, Don Diego de Ibara, to 
give us joy of our arrival, and to ask 
leave of my husband to visit him, which 
Don Diego did within two hours after the 
Lieutenant's return. The next morning, 
stilo novo, came in a Levant wind, which blew 
the fleet so forcibly, that we could not possi- 
bly land until Monday, the 7th of March, 
at 10 o'clock in the morning. Then came the 
Governor, Don Diego de Ibara, aboard, ac- 
companied by most of the persons of qualitj^ 
of that town, with many boats for the con- 
veyance of our family, and a very rich barge 
covered with crimsom damask fringed with 
gold, and Persia carpets under foot. So soon 
as it was day we set sail to go nearer the 
shore. We were first saluted by all the ships 
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Spain's forts, which salutation we returned 
again with our guns. 

My husband received the Governor upon 
deck, and carried him into the round-house, 
who, so soon as he was there, told my hus- 
band, that contrary to the usage of the King 
of vSpain, his Majesty had commanded that 
his ships and forts should first salute the 
King of England's Ambassador, and that his 
Majesty had commanded that both in that 
place of Cadiz and in all others to the Court 
of Madrid, my husband and all his retinue 
should be entertained upon the King s ac- 
count, in as full and ample manner both 
as to persons and conveyance of our goods 
and persons, as if his Majesty were there 
in person. My husband and self and chil- 
dren went in the barge, the rest in other 
barges provided for that purpose. 

At our setting off. Sir John Lawson sa- 
luted us with very many guns, and as we 



LADY FANSHAWE. jg^ 

went near the shore the cannon saluted 
us in great numbers. When we landed we 
were carried on shore in a rich chair sup- 
ported by eight men : we were welcomed 
by many volleys of shot, and all the per- 
sons of quality of that town by the sea- 
side, among whom was the Governor, did 
conduct my husband with all his train. 
There were infinite numbers of people, who 
with the soldiery did show us all the re- 
spect and welcome imaginable. I was re- 
ceived by his Excellency Don Milcha de 
la Cueva, the Duke of Albuquerque's bro- 
ther, and the Governor of the garrison, who 
both led me four or five paces to a rich 
sedan, which carried me to the coach where 
the Governor's lady was, who came out 
immediately to salute me, and whom, after 
some compliments, I took into the coach 
with me and my children. 

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were to lodge, we were nobly treated, and 
the Governor's wife did me the honour to 
sup with me. That afternoon the Duke 
of Albuquerque came to visit my hus- 
band, and afterwards me, with his brother 
Don Milcha de la Cueva. As soon as 
the Duke was seated and covered, he said, 
' Madam, I am Don Juan de la Cueva, 
Duke of Albuquerque, Viceroy of Milan, 
of his Majesty's privy council. General of 
the galleys, twice Grandee, the first Gen- 
tleman of his Majesty's bed-chamber, and 
a near kinsman to his Catholic Majesty, 
whom God long preserve */ and then ris- 
ing up and making me a low reverence 
with his hat off, said, * These with my fa- 
mily and life, I lay at your Excellency's 
feet/ 

They were accompanied by a very great 
train of gentlemen. At his going away, he 



LADY FANSHAWE. J 87 

told me his Lady would suddenly visit me. 
We had a guard constantly waited on us, 
and sentries at the gate below and at the 
stairs' head above. We were visited by all 
the persons of quality in that town. Our 
house was richly furnished, both my hus- 
band's quarter and mine; the worst chamber 
and bed in my apartment being furnished 
with damask, in which my chamber-maid lay ; 
and throughout all the chambers the floors 
were covered with Persia carpets. The 
richness of the gilt and silver plate, which 
we had in great abundance, as we had 
likewise of all sorts of very fine household 
linen, was fit only for the entertainment of 
so great a Prince as his Majesty, our Master, 
in the representation of whose person my 
husband received this great entertainment ; 
yet, I assure you, notwithstanding this 
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both wished ourselves in a retired country 
Ufa in England, as more agreeable to both 
our inclinations. 

I must not forget here, the ceremony the 
Governor used to my husband. After sup- 
per, the Governor brought the keys of the 
town to my husband, saying, ' Whilst your 
Excellency is here, I am no Governor of 
this town, and therefore desire your Excel- 
lency, from me, your servant, to receive 
these keys, and to begin and give the word 
to the garrison. "^ This night my husband, 
with all the demonstrations of sense of so 
great an honour, returned his Catholic Ma- 
jesty, by him, his humble thanks, refusing 
the keys, and wishing the Governor much 
prosperity with them, who so well deserved 
that honour the King had given him. Then 
the Governor pressed my husband again for 
the word, which my husband gave, and was 



LADY FANSHAWE. 189 

this : * Long live his CathoHc Majesty !' 
Then the Governor took his leave, and his 
Lady of me, whom I accompanied to the 
stairs' head. 

The next day v^e were visited by the 
Mayor and all the Burgesses of the town : 
on the same day, Saturday the 8th, the 
Governor's Lady sent me a very noble pre- 
sent of India plate and other commodities 
thereof. In the afternoon the Duchess of 
Albuquerque sent a gentleman to me to 
know if with conveniency her Excellency 
might visit me the next day, as the cus- 
tom of the Court is. 

On Sunday the 9th, her Excellency with 
her daughter, who was newly married to 
her uncle Don Milcha de la Cueva, visited 
me. I met them at the stairs^ head, and 
at her Excellency's going, there parted with 
her. Her Excellency had on, besides other 



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very rich jewels, as I guess, about two thou- 
sand pearls, the roundest, the whitest, and 
the biggest that ever I saw in my life. 

On Thursday the ISth, the English Con- 
sul with all the merchants brought us a 
present of two silver basins and ewers, 
with a hundred weight of chocolate, with 
crimson taffeta clothes, laced with silver 
laces, and voiders, which were made in the 
Indies, as were also the basins and ewers. 

This afternoon I went to pay my visit 
to the Duchess of Albuquerque. When I 
came to take coach, the soldiers stood to 
their arms, and the Lieutenant that held 
the colours displaying them, which is ne- 
ver done to any one but to kings, or such 
as represent their persons, I stood still all 
the while, then at the lowering of the 
colours to the ground, they received for 
them a low courtesy from me, and for him- 
self a bow; then taking coach with very 



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many persons, both in coaches and on foot, 
I went to the Duke's palace, where I was 
again received by a guard of his Excel- 
lency's, with the same ceremony of the 
King's colours as before. Then 1 was re- 
ceived by the Duke's brother and near a 
hundred persons of quality. I laid my 
hand upon the wrist of his Excellency's 
right hand; he putting his cloak thereupon, 
as the Spanish fashion is, went up the 
stairs, upon the top of which stood the 
Duchess and her daughter, who received 
me with great civility, putting me into 
every door and all my children till we came 
to sit down in her Excellency's chamber, 
where she placed me on her right hand, 
upon cushions, as the fashion of this Court is, 
being very rich and laid upon Persia carpets. 
At my return, the Duchess and her 
daughter went out before me, and at 
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I met the Duke, who with his brother 
and the rest of the gentlemen that did 
accompany our gentleman during our stay 
there, went down together before me. 
When I took my leave of the Duchess, in 
the same place where his Excellency re- 
ceived me, the Duke led me down to the 
coach in the same manner as his brother 
led me up the stairs, and having received 
the ceremony of the soldiers, I returned 
home to my lodgings, where after I had 
been an hour, Don Antonio de Pimentel, 
the Governor of Cadiz, who that day was 
newly come to town, after having been to 
visit my husband, came to visit me with 
great company, on the part of his Ca- 
tholic Majesty, and afterwards upon his own 
score. He sent me a very rich present of 
perfumes, skins, gloves, and purses embroi- 
dered, with other nacks of the same kind. 
Sir John Lawson being now ready to 



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depart from Cadiz, we presented him with a 
pair of flaggons, one hundred pounds, and 
a tun of Lusena wine, which cost us forty 
pounds, and a hundred and forty pieces-of- 
eight for his men. We sent Captain Feme 
two hundred pieces-of-eight, and to his 
men forty pieces-of-eight, they being very 
careful of our goods, the most of which he 
brought. We sent Captain Bartley a hun- 
dred pieces-of-eight, and to his men twenty ; 
he carried part of our horses, as did Cap- 
tain Utbertj to whom we sent the hke 
sum. 

On the 19th of March, we took our leave 
of Cadiz, where we gave at our coming away, 
to persons that attended on us in several 
offices, two hundred and eighty pieces-of- 
eight. We were accompanied to the water- 
side in the same manner. We were received 
on shore with all points of formality, and 
having taken our leave, with many thanks 

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and compliments to the Governor and Don 
Diego Ibara, his lady, and all the rest of 
those persons there, to whom we were as 
much beholden for their civility, we en- 
tered the King's barge, which was newly 
trimmed up for the purpose by the Duke of 
Medina Celi, at Puerta Sancta Maria. No 
person ever went in it before but the King. 
The Governor, Don Antonio di Pimentel, 
went with us in the barge, and many other 
barges were provided by him for all our 
train. 

At our going we had many volleys of shot, 
afterwards many cannons, and as we went, 
the guns of all the ships in the harbour. 
When we were come over the bar, all the 
forts by St. Mary's port saluted us, and 
when we came to the shore-side, we found 
many thousand soldiers in arms, in very 
great order, with their commanders, and a 
bridge made on purpose for us, with great 



LADY FANSIIAWE. 195 

curiosity, so far into the river, that the end 
of the bridge touched the side of the barge. 
At the end of the bridge stood the Duke 
of Medina CeH and his son, the Duke of 
Alcala. During the time of our landing, we 
had infinite volleys of shot, presented with 
drums beating and trumpets sounding, and 
all the demonstration of hearty welcome 
imaginable. 

The two dukes embraced my husband 
with great kindness, welcoming him to the 
place , and the Duke of Medina Celi led me to 
my coach, an honour that he had never done 
any but once, when he waited on your 
Queen to help her on the like occasion. The 
Duke d' Alcala led my eldest daughter, and 
the younger led my second, and the Governor 
of Cadiz, Don Antonio de Pimentel, led 
the third. Mrs. Kestian carried Betty in her 
arms. 

Thus I entered the Duchess of Alcala's 
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coach, which conveyed me to my lodging, 
the ceremony of the King's colours being 
performed as at Cadiz. We passed through 
the streets, in which were an infinite number 
of people, to a house provided for us, the 
best of all the place, which was caused to 
be glazed by the Duke on purpose for us. 
At our alighting out of the coaches, the 
Duke led me up into my apartment, with an 
infinite number of noblemen and gentlemen, 
his relations ; there they took their leave of 
me, conducting my husband to his quarter, 
*"with whom they staid in visit about half an 
hour, and so returned to his house. After 
I hud been there three hours, the Duchess 
of Alcala sent a gentleman to say her 
Excellency welcomed me to the place, 
and that, as soon as I was reposed after 
my long voyage, she would wait upon 
me : in like manner did the Marquis of 
Bayonne and his lady, and their son with 
his lady. 



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I must not pass hy the description of 
the entertainment, which was vastly great, 
tables being plentifully covered every 
meal for above three hundred persons. 
The furniture was all as rich tapestry, em- 
broideries of gold and silver upon velvet, 
cloth of tissue, both gold and silver, with 
rich Persia carpets on the floors: none could 
exceed them. Very delicate fine linen of all 
sorts, both for table and beds, never washed, 
but new, cut out of the piece, and all things 
thereunto belonging. The plate was vastly 
great and beautiful, nor for ornament were 
they fewer than the rest of the bravery, there 
being very fine cabinets, looking-glasses, 
tables, and chairs. 

On Thursday, at two in the afternoon, the 
Duchess of Alcala came to visit me ; she 
had lain in but three weeks of a daughter. 
The day before she performed all the cere- 
monies and civihties, which is the custom, 
of the Court to me and mine. 



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On the 21st 1 was visited by the Mar- 
quessa of Bayonne, and all that noble family. 
On the 23rd I went repay the Duchess 
of Alcala her Excellency's visit, and to give 
her thanks for my noble entertainment; a 
part thereof being provided under the care 
of her Excellency. 

I likewise went to pay the visit to the 
Marquessa de Bayonne. On Monday the 
24th5* we began our journey from Port St. 
Mary to Madrid, and taking leave of all 
the company, we gave one hundred pieces- 
of-eight to the servants of the family, and 
fifty pieces-of-eight to the Duke's coachman 
and footmen. The Duke accompanied me in 
the same manner as he did when he brought 
me to the coach- side when we landed ; 
and afterwards my husband and the Duke 
entering the Duke's coach, he brought us a 
mile out of towm, as did also the Marquis 
of Bayonne, and his lady, with an infinite 
* The new style is here used. 



LADY FAN SH AWE. 199 

number of persons of the best quality of 
that place. 

That night we went to Xeres, being met, 
a league before we came to the town, by the 
Corregidor, accompanied by many gentle- 
men and coaches of that place, with many 
thousands of common people, who con- 
ducted us to a house provided for us, as 
the King had commanded, with plenty of 
all sorts of accommodation. My husbaild 
made his entry into the town in the Cor- 
regidor's coach, as he did in all places up 
to Madrid. 

At this town I was visited by my Lord 
Duncan's lady, who lives there, and whose 
visit I repaid the next day before I left 
the town. We received letters by a gen- 
tleman, sent express from the Duke of Me- 
dina Celi, and the Duke of Alcala, who 
both wrote to my husband, and his Duchess 
to me, all of them expressing great civility 
and kindness. By the bearer of these let- 



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ters we returned the acknowledgment of 
their favours in our letters, to all their Ex- 
cellencies, and presented the knight that 
brought them with a chain of gold that 
cost thirty pounds sterling. 

At nine o'clock we left the pleasant town of 
Xeres, and lodged the next night at Lebriia; 
and the next night at Utrera, where we saw 
the ruins of a brave town, nothing remain- 
ing extraordinary, but the fineness of the 
situation. We were met there by Don Lope de 
Mendoco, who was sent with his troop of horse 
from Seville, bv command of the assistant of 
that city, the Conde de Molina. There came 
out to meet us also, the Corregidor of Utrera, 
with an infinite number of persons of all quali- 
ties, who met us a league from the town, as 
did also the English Consul of Seville, with 
many English merchants, who had clothed 
twelve footmen in new liveries, for to show 
the more respect to my husband. We were 



LADY FANSHAWE. 20] 

lodged in a priest^'s house, which was very 
nobly furnished for our reception, and our 
treatment was answerable thereunto. 

Thursday the 27th of March, we entered 
Seville, being met a league from the city by 
the assistant, the Conde de Molina, with 
many hundred coaches, with nobility and 
gentry in them, and very many thousands of 
the burgesses and common people of the 
town. My husband, after usual compliments 
passed, went into the Conde^s coach. I fol- 
lowed my husband in my own coach, as I 
ever did in all places ; all the pages going 
next my coach on horseback, and then our 
coach of state, and other coaches and litters 
behind, many of the gentlemen and servants 
riding on horseback, and many of the gen- 
tlemen did ride before the coach. Thus we 
entered that great city that had been of 
Seville, though now much decayed. We 
lay in the King's palace, which was very 



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royally furnished on purpose for our recep- 
tion, and all our treatment during our stay. 
We were lodged in a silver bedstead, quilt, 
curtains, valances, and counterpane of crim- 
son damask, embroidered richly with flowers 
of gold. The tables of precious stones, and 
the looking-glasses bordered with the same ; 
the chairs the same as the bed, and the 
floor covered with rich Persia carpets, and 
a great brasera of silver, filled full of deli- 
cate flowers, which was replenished every 
day as long as we staid. The hangings 
were of tapestry full of gold, all which 
furniture was never lain in but two nights, 
when his Majesty was at Seville. Within my 
chamber was a dressing-room, and by that 
a chamber very richly furnished, in which 
my children lay, and within them all my 
women : on the other side of the chamber 
as I came in, was my dining-room, in which 
I did constantly eat. I and my children 



LADY FANSHAWE. 2-03 

eating at a table alone, all the way, with- 
out any company, till we came to our jour- 
ney's end, where we provided for ourselves 
at Ballecas, within a league of Madrid. In 
this palace, the chief room of my husband's 
quarters was a gallery, wherein were three 
pair of India cabinets of japan, the biggest 
and beautifulest that ever I did see in my 
life : it was furnished with rich tapestry 
hangings, rich looking-glasses, tables, Persia 
carpets, and cloth of tissue chairs. This pa- 
lace hath many princely rooms in it, both 
above and underneath the ground, with 
many large gardens, terraces, walks, fish- 
ponds, and statues, many large courts and 
fountains, all of which were as well dressed 
for our reception as art or money could 
make them. 

During our stay in this palace, we were 
every day entertained with a variety of re- 
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plays, dancing, men playing at legerdemain, 
which were constantly ushered in with very 
great banquets, and so finished. 

On the 30th, the Malaga merchants of 
the English presented my husband with a 
very fine horse, that cost them three hun- 
dred pounds. On the 1st of April, the 
English merchants, with their Consul of 
Seville, presented us with a quantity of 
chocolate and as much sugar, with twelve 
fine sarcenet napkins laced thereunto be- 
longing, with a very large silver pot to 
make it in, and twelve very fine cups to 
drink it out of, filigree, with covers of the 
same, with two very large salvers to set 
them upon, of silver. 

On Thursday the 3rd of April, 1664, 
we took our leave of the assistant and 
the rest of that noble company at Seville. 
The Conde de Molina, who was assistant 
of Seville, presented me with a young 



LADY FANSHAWE. 205 

lion ; but I desired his Excellency's par- 
don that I did not accept of it, saying I 
was of so cowardly a nature, I durst not 
keep company with it. In the same man- 
ner as they received us, so they accom- 
panied us a league onward on our way, 
whereupon my husband alighting out of 
the Conde's coach, and having with me 
taken leave of all the company, both he 
and I got upon horseback ; and here we 
took our leave of my Lord Dunean, who 
with great kindness brought us so far 
from Xeres. Some of the Malaga mer- 
chants of Seville accompanied us on our 
journey. That night we lay at Carm-ona, 
and on the 4th of April at Fuentes, the 
hono' of the Marquis, who is now at Pa- 
ris, Ambassador from the King of Spain 
to that Court. On the 5th we lay at 
Ecica, where we received noble entertain- 
ment from the noblemen and gentlemen of 



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that town, where we staid till Thursday, 
the 8th of April, and after paying thanks 
to those persons that had so well ordered 
that noble entertainment with great civi- 
lity to us, we w^ent that night to Cor- 
dova, where a league before we came to 
the town, we were met by the Corregidor 
with near a hundred coaches, and a foot 
company of soldiers stood on each side of 
the way, giving volleys of shot with dis- 
played colours and trumpets, with many 
thousands of people, who by fireworks and 
other expressions showed much joy. Here 
we parted with Don Lope, a gentleman 
sent from the Conde de Molina to this 
place to accompany us. 

We were lodged at a very brave house, 
and as bravely furnished : at night we had a 
play acted, and during our stay there we 
saw many nunneries, and the best churches, 
as we had likewise done at Seville and at 



LADY FANSHAWE. 207 

all the other towns through which we had 
passed in our journey from the sea-side. We 
had there the feast of the bulls, called in the 
Spanish tongue jago de los torros. We had 
likewise another sport, called jago de cannas, 
in which appeared very many fine gentle- 
men, fine horses, and very fine trappings. 
We had abundance of entertainments, and 
yet their civility and good manners ex- 
ceeded all, as likewise the fame of that 
place, which is so highly renowned in the 
world for noble and well-bred gentlemen. 
The Corregidor presented me with twelve 
great cases of amber and orange water, 
reputed to be the best in the world, with 
twelve barrels of olives, which have likewise 
the same fame. 

Upon Thursday the 15th of April, we took 
our leave of Cordova, and all those noble 
persons therein, lodging that night at Car- 
pio, the Marquisship of Don Lewis de Haro, 



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and on the l6tb, we lodged at Anduxar, 
and on the 17th, at Linares ; the 18th we 
entered the Sierra Morena, and lodged at 
St. Estevan, the hono' of a Conde, who is at 
present Vice-King of Peru ; on the IQth, 
we came out of the Sierra Morena, and 
lodged that night at la Torre de Juan-Abat; 
on the 20th we lay at Membrilla, and there 
staid all day on Monday and Tuesday ; 
the 22nd at Villa Harta: here rises the river 
Guadiana, that goes under ground seven 
leagues before. On the 23rd, we lay at 
Consuegra; here Don John of Austria was 
nursed. The 24th, we lay at Mora ; on the 
25th, we lay at the famous city of Toledo, 
two leagues from that town. The Marquis 

of — , Governor of Toledo, met us, in 

whose coach my husband went with him 
towards the town, where within half a league 
he was met by four persons that repre- 
sented the city, and all the city of Toledo, 



LADY FANSHAWE. 209 

with all the noblemen and gentlemen of that 
town. A little farther the Marquis's ladj^ 
met me, who alighting out of her coach, and 
I to meet her, after some compliments passed, 
I entered her coach with my children, and 
so passed through the streets, in which there 
were both water-works and fire-works, and 
many thousand people of all sorts, and com- 
panies of soldiers giving us volleys of shots. 

We alighted at the gate, the Marquis 
leading me up into my lodgings. This house, 
next to the King\s Palace at Seville, was both 
the largest and the noblest furnished that I 
saw in all my journey ; and likewise all 
the streets of the city were hung with rich 
tapestry and other rich things of silver and 
gold embroidery, through which we passed. 
We were there entertained, during our stay, 
with comedies and music, and jago de torros, 
and with great plenty of provisions of all 
sorts, that were necessary to demonstrate 

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a princely entertainment. I eat constantly 
at a table on purpose provided for me, at 
which the Marquessa kept me company, as 
she did likewise whenever I went to visit 
any remarkable place, of which there are 
many in Toledo, but none comparable to 
the great church, which for the greatness 
and beauty of it I have not seen many 
better; but for the riches therein never the 
like. Here my husband received another 
message from the Duke de Medina las 
Torres, desiring him to meet him at Val- 
demoro the Friday following, his Catholic 
Majesty being then at Aranjuez. This 
message was sent by a gentleman of his 
own, the other that he sent to welcome us 
into this country, being under-gentleman of 
the horse to her Majesty. 

Upon Thursday the 29th of April, we 
took our leave of the Marquis and his 
lady, giving one hundred and eighty pieces- 



LADY FANSHAWE. 211 

of-eight among his family. That night we 
lay at Lescas, and on the 30th we came to 
Ballecas, where we found a house provided 
for us. Here the King's entertainment 
ceased, and we provided for all the accom- 
modations of our family, the bare house 
only excepted. We continued at Ballecas 
till the 8th of June following, during which 
time there happened nothing extraordinary ; 
the Duke often sending his secretary to my 
husband about business, and the Master of 
the Ceremonies, about our constant endea- 
vour to get a house, though at last we were 
glad to go to a part of a house of the 
Conde de Irvias,* where the Duke of vSt. 
Germain had lived before. Here we re- 
ceived many messages of welcome to the 
Court from all the Ambassadors and all the 
Grandees, and I from the Ambassadors' 
ladies, the Duchess de Medina las Torres, 
with great numbers of the greatest persons 
* Query. 
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of quality in Madrid. The men visited m>^ 
husband, but I could not suffer the ladies 
to visit me, though they much desired it, 
because I was so straitened in my lodgings, 
which in no sort were convenient to re- 
ceive persons of that quality in, not being 
capacious enough for our own family, for 
whose accommodation we took Count Mar- 
sin's house close by this. 

On Wednesday, the 18th of June, my 
husband had his audience of his Catholic 
Majesty; who sent the Marquis de Mal- 
pica to conduct him, and brought with 
him a horse of his Majesty's for my hus- 
band to ride on, and thirty more for his 
gentlemen, and his Majesty's coach with 
the guard that he was captain of. No Am- 
bassador's coach accompanied my husband 
but the French, who did it contrary to the 
King s command ; who had before, upon 
my husband's demanding the custom of 



LADY FANSHAWE. 213 

Ambassadors accompanying all other Am- 
bassadors that came into this Court at their 
audience, replied, that although it had been 
so, it should be so no more ; saying it was 
a custom brought into this Court within 
less than these twenty-five years, and that 
it caused many disputes, for which he would 
no more suffer it. To this order all the Am- 
bassadors in this Court submitted but the 
French, whose Secretary told my husband, 
at his coming that morning, that his Mas- 
ter, the Ambassador, said that his Catholic 
Majesty had nothing to do to give his 
Master orders, nor would he obey any of 
them ; and so great was this work of su- 
pererogation on the part of the French, 
that they waited on my husband from the 
palace home, a compliment till that time 
never seen before. 

About 11 o'clock set forth out of his 
lodgings my husband thus : first went all 



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those gentlemen of the town and palace 
that came to accompany him, then went 
twenty footmen all in new liveries of the 
same colour we used to give, which is a 
dark green cloth with a frost upon green 
lace ; then went my husband's gentlemen, 
and next before himself his camaradoes 
two and two : 

Mr. Wycherley and Mr. Lorim, 
Mr. Godolphin, Sir Edward Turner, 
Sir Andrew King, Sir Benjamin Wright, 
Mr. Newport and Mr. Bertie. 

Then my husband, in a very rich suit of 
clothes of a dark fillemonte brocade laced 
with silver and gold lace, nine laces, every 
one as broad as my hand, and a little 
silver and gold lace laid between them, 
both of very curious workmanship ; his suit 
was trimmed with scarlet taffety ribbon ; 
his stockings of white silk upon long scar- 



LADY FANSHAWE. 215 

let silk ones ; his shoes black, with scarlet 
shoe-strings and garters ; his linen very fine, 
laced with very rich Flanders lace ; a black 
beaver, buttoned on the left side, with a 
jewel of twelve hundred pounds value. A 
rich curious wrought gold chain, made in the 
Indies, at which hung the King his Master's 
picture, richly set with diamonds, cost 300/. 
which his Majesty, in great grace and favour, 
had been pleased to give him at his coming 
home from Portugal. On his fingers he wore 
two rich rings ; his gloves trimmed with the 
same ribbon as his clothes. All his whole 
family were very richly clothed, according to 
their several qualities. Upon my husband's 
left hand rode the Marquis of Malpica, 
Captain of the German guard, and the 
Major-domo to his Majesty, being that 
week in waiting : by him went all the 
German guard, and by them my husband's 
eight pages, clothed aL in velvet, the same 
colour as our liveries ; next them followed 



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his Catholic Majesty ^s coach, and my hus- 
band's coach of state, with four black horses, 
the finest that ever came out of England, 
none going in this Court with six but the 
King himself. The coach was of rich crim- 
son velvet, laced with a broad silver and 
gold lace, fringed round with a massy silver 
and gold fringe, and the falls of the boot 
so rich that they hung almost down to the 
ground : the very fringe cost almost four 
hundred pounds. The coach was very richly 
gilt on the outside, and very richly adorned 
with brass work, with rich tassels of gold 
and silver, hanging round the top of the 
curtains round about the coach. The cur- 
tains were of rich damask, fringed with 
silver and gold ; the harness for six horses 
was richly embossed with brass work ; the 
reins and tassels for the horses of crimson 
silk, silver and gold. This coach is said to 
be the finest that ever entered Madrid with 



LADY FANSHAWE. 217 

any Ambassador whatsoever. Next to this 
followed the French A^lbassador^s coach, 
then my husband's second coach, which was 
of green figured velvet, with green damask 
curtains, handsomely gilt, adorned on the 
outside, with harness for six horses, suitable 
to the same. The four horses were fellows 
to those that drew the rich coach when 
we went out of town, using always six : 
after this followed my husband's third coach, 
with four mules, being a very good one, 
according to the fashion of this country; 
then followed many coaches of particular 
persons of this Court. 

Thus they rode through the greatest 
streets of Madrid, as the custom is; and 
alighting within the palace, my husband was 
conducted up by the Marquis, all the King's 
guard attending, through many rooms, in 
which were infinite numbers of people, as 
there was in the streets to see him pass to 



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the palace up to a private drawing-room of 
his Cathohc Majesty's, where my husband 
was received with great grace and favour by 
his Majesty. My husband, being covered, 
deUvered his message in EngUsh, inter- 
preted afterwards by himself in Spanish ; 
after this my husband gave his Cathohc 
Majesty thanks for his noble entertainment 
from our landing to this Court, to which his 
Catholic Majesty replied, ' that, as well 
for the great esteem he had ever had for his 
person, as the greatness of his Master whom 
he served, he would be always glad to be 
serviceable to him/ 

After my husband's obeisance to the King, 
and saluting all the grandees there waiting, 
he was conducted to the Queen ; where 
having staid in company with her Majesty, 
the Empress, and the Prince, took his leave. 
He returned home in his Majesty's coach, 
with the Marquis of Malpica sitting at the 



LADY FANSHAWE. 219 

same end, accompanied by the same per- 
sons that went with him, having a banquet 
ready for them at their return. That day 
in the evening my husband visited his Ex- 
cellency the Duke de Medina de las Torres; 
and the next morning all the Council of 
State, as the custom of this Court is. 

Upon the 21st, all the Ambassadors at 
this Court, one after the other, visited my 
husband, as did also the grandees and 
nobles ; his Excellency the Duke de Me- 
dina de las Torres beginning". On the 24th, 
my husband had a private audience of 
his Catholic Majesty ; on the 27th, I wait- 
ed on the Queen and the Empress, with my 
daughters and all my train. 1 was re- 
ceived at the Buen Retiro by the guard, and 
afterwards, when I came up-stairs, by the 
Marquessa of Isincessa, the Queen^s Cama- 
rera Major, then in waiting. Through in- 
finite number of people I passed to the 



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Queen's presence, where her Majesty was 
seated at the upper end, under a cloth of 
state upon three cushions, and on her left 
hand the Empress, and three more ; the 
ladies were all standing. After making 
my last reverence to the Queen, her Ma- 
jesty and the Empress rising up, and mak- 
ing me a little courtesy, sat down again; 
then I, by my interpreter. Sir Benjamin 
Wright, said those compliments that were 
due from me to her Majesty ; to which 
her Majesty made me a gracious and kind 
reply. Then I presented my children, whom 
her Majesty received with great grace and 
favour: then her Majesty speaking to me 
to sit, I sat down upon a cushion laid for 
me, above all the ladies who sat, but below 
the Camarera Major, no woman taking place 
of her Excellency but princesses. The chil- 
dren sat on the other side mingled with 
Court ladies, that are maids of honour: thus 



LADY FANSHAWE. 221 

having passed half an hour in discourse, I 
took my leave of her Majesty and the Em- 
press, making reverences to all the ladies in 
passing. I returned home in the same man- 
ner as I came. The next day the Camarera 
Major sent to see how I did, in compliment 
from her Majesty. 

On the 9th of July my husband sent Don 
Pedro Roco, Master of the Ceremonies, a gold 
chain, which cost four score pounds, and, on 
the 22nd of July, the merchants of Alicant 
sent us a piece of purple damask, of one hun- 
dred and thirty yards, for a present. On 
Saturday, the l6th of August, we came to 
the house of Siete Chimeneas, which his 
Majesty gave us to dwell in, having been 
the house where the Venetian Ambassador 
dwelt, and who went out for our accom- 
modation by the King's command. 

We settled now our family and tables in 
order: our own consisted of two courses, of 



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eight dishes each, and the stewards of four. 
We had our money returned from England 
by Mr. Goddard, an English merchant 
living in Madrid, a very honest man and 
an able merchant. Tuesday, the 24th, we 
dined at the Casa del Campo, a house of his 
Majesty's, in the garden of which stands a 
very brave statue of Philip the Second, on 
horseback. October 4th, we dined at the 
Parda, another house of his Majesty's, which 
is very fine, and hath a fine park well stored 
with deer belonging to it. 

October , we went privately to see 

Aranjuez, which was most part of it built by 
Philip the Second, husband to Queen Mary 
of England. There are the highest trees, and 
grow up the evenest, that ever I saw; many 
of them are bored through with pipes for 
water to ascend and to fall from the top 
down one against another, and likewise there 
are many fountains in the side of this walk, 



LADY FAN SH AWE. 223 

and the longest walks of elms I ever saw in 
my life. The park is well stored with English 
oaks and elms, and deer; and the Tagus 
makes it an island. The gardens are vastly 
large, with the most fountains, and the best 
that ever I saw in my life. 

As soon as the Duke heard we were gone 
thither, he immediately sent orders after us 
for our entertainment by a post; but we were 
gone before. Going home by Escurias, 
we saw those famous reputed cellars, which 
are forty -four steps down, where that 
admirable wine is kept in great tanajas, 
which are pots holding about five hundred 
gallons each, and, to let you know how 
strangely they clear their wine, it is by 
putting some of the earth of the place in it, 
which way of refining their wine is done no 
where but here. 

October the 14th, the King proclaimed 
the lowering the vellon money to the half; 



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and the pistole, that was this morning at 
eighty-two reals, was proclaimed to go but 
for forty-eight, which was above eight hun- 
dred pounds loss to my husband. 

October the 21st, we went to see the 
Buen Retiro. The Duke de Medina de las 
Torres, who has the keeping of this house of 
the King's from his Majesty, sent two of his 
gentlemen to show us all that belongs there- 
unto. The place is adorned with much 
water and fountains, trees and fine gardens, 
with many hermitages up and down the 
place, and a very good house for his Ma- 
jesty ; yet the pictures therein did far exceed 
the rest, they being many, and all very cu- 
rious, done by the best hand in the world 
in their times. 

On the 27th of October we went, with 
all our train, to see the Escurial, the Duke 
de Medina de las Torres having procured a 
letter here from the Pope's Nuncio to give 



LADY FANSHAWE. 225 

me leave to see the convent there, which 
cannot be seen by any woman without his 
leave : likewise the Duke did send letters to 
the Prior, commanding him to assist in 
showing all the principal parts of that princely 
fabrick, and to lodge us in the lodging of 
the Duke de Montaldo, the Major-domo 
to her Majesty. We were near eighty persons 
in company, and five coaches. So soon as we 
were arrived there, the Prior sent two of his 
chief friars to welcome us to the Escurial. 
The friar who met us by command a league 
before, at a grange house of his Majesty's, and 
accompanied us to the Escurial, being re- 
turned, these friars from the Prior brought us a 
present of St. Martin's wine and melons, a calf, 
a kid, two great turkeys, fine bread, apples, 
pears, cream, with some other fine things of 
that place. On the 28th, being St. Simon's and 
Jude's day, we all went eariy in the morning 
to see the church, where we were met by the 

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Prior at the door, with all the friars on both 
sides, who received us with great kindness 
and respect, and all the choir singing till we 
came up to the high altar, then all of them 
accompanied us to the Pantheon, which was, 
for that purpose, hung full of lights in the 
branches ; there saw I the most glorious 
place for the covering of the bones of their 
Kings of Spain that is possible to imagine. 
I will briefly give you this description. 

The descent is about thirty steps, all of 
polished marble, and arched and lined on 
all sides with jasper polished ; upon the left 
hand, in the middle of the stairs, is a large 
vault, in which the bodies of their Kings, and 
Queens that have been mothers of Kings, lie 
in silver coffins for one year, until the mois- 
ture of their bodies be consumed. Over 
against this is another vault, in which lie 
buried the bodies of those Queens that had 
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of their Kings that did not inherit. At the 
bottom of the stairs is the Pantheon, built 
eight feet square, and is, I guess, about 
sixty feet over ; the whole lining of it in 
all places is jasper, very curiously carved, 
both in figures and flowers, and imagery, 
and a branch for forty lights, which is vastly 
rich, of silver, and hangs down from the top 
by a silver chain, within three yards of the 
bottom, and is made with great art, as is 
also this curious knot of jasper on the floor, 
that the reflection of the branch and lights 
is perfectly there to be seen. The bodies 
of their Kings lie in jasper stones, supported 
every coffin by four lions of jasper at the 
four corners ; three coffins and three broad 
stones are set in every arch, which arch is 
curiously wrought in the roof, and sup- 
ported by jasper pillars : there are seven 
arches, and one in the middle at the upper 
end, and over against the coming in, that 

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contains a very curious altar and crucifix of 
jasper. 

From thence we saw all the convent and 
the sacristaina, in which there were all the 
principal pieces that ever Titian made, and 
the hands of many others of the most 
famous men that then were in the world. 

After seeing the convent, and every part 
thereof, we saw the King's palace with the 
apothecary's shop, and all the stillatories, 
and all belonging thereunto. 

The Escurial stands under the side of a 
very high mountain : it has a very fine 
river, and a very large park well stored 
with deer : it is built upon a hill, and you 
ascend above half a mile through a double 
row of elm-trees to the house, which is 
abundantly served with most excellent water 
and wood for their use. The front has a 
large platform paved with marble, and 
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the entry of the gate is supported by two 
marble pillars, each of them of one entire 
marble, which are near twelve feet high ; it 
is built with seventeen courts and gardens 
thereunto ; every court contains a different 
office ; the whole is built of rough marble, 
with pillars of the same round the cloisters; 
and the walls thereof are made so smooth, 
that the famous Titian hath painted them 
with stories all over, among others, the story 
of the battle of Lepanto, and the gallery of 
the palace also : they have infinite numbers 
of fountains, both within and without house. 
It contains a very fine palace, a convent, 
and a college and hospital, all which are 
exactly well kept and royally furnished ; 
but I cannot omit saying, that the finest 
stillatory I ever saw is there, being a very 
large room shelved round, with glasses sized 
and sorted upon the shelves, many of crys- 
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some of vast sizes : the floor is paved with 
black and white marble ; and in the middle 
stands a furnace, with five hundred stills 
around it, with glass like a pyramid, with 
glass heads. The apothecary^s shop is large, 
very richly adorned with paint, and gilding, 
and marble ; there is an inward room, in 
which the medicines are made, as finely fur- 
nished and beautified as the shop ; all the 
vessels are silver, and so are all the instru- 
ments for surgery : nothing is wanted there 
for that purpose that invention or money 
can produce. 

We were entertained with a banquet at 
the Prior^s lodging ; and afterwards returned, 
accompanied by the friars, to our lodgings, 
where the Prior made a visit to my husband, 
and my husband offered to repay it again, 
sending to him to know if his Reveren- 
tissima Senoria would give him leave to 
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his noble entertainment, although both he 
and I had done it. The Prior excused the 
visit, and so we rested that night. 

I would not have you that read this book, 
wonder that I should not more largely describe 
this so unparalleled fabrick in the world ; but 
I do purposely omit the particulars, because 
it is in every particular exactly described 
in a book written by the friars, and sold 
in that place, with all the cuts of every 
particular of the place, and you have it 
among your father's books. The friars of 
this convent are of the order of St. Law- 
rence. 

On the ^pth, we returned home to our 
house at Madrid, where on Saturday af- 
ter my little child, Betty, fell ill of the 
small-pox, as had done my daughter Ann, 
in the month of September before ; but 
both of them, God's name be praised ! 
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but as I could not receive, for want of 
capacity of room, the ladies of the Court at 
my lodgings at the Conde de Irvias, so 
could I not receive them here by reason of 
the small-pox in the family, and they hav- 
ing twice offered to visit me, and I refused 
it upon that account. 

Thursday 27th November, 1 went to wait 
upon the Emperor's Ambassador's lady, at 
her house ; upon the 28th, I went to wait 
upon the Duchess de Medina de las Torres ; 
and on the 29th, the Emperor's Ambassa- 
dor's lady came to visit me. The same 
day the Duchess de Medina de las Torres 
sent an excuse by Don Alonzo, one of the 
Duke*s secretaries, that she could not visit 
that day, by reason her youngest daughter 
was fallen sick of a fever. Sunday the 30th 
of November, I sent to thank the Emperor^s 
Ambassador's lady for the visit the day 
before, and to see how she did. 



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Upon the 1st of December, we let our dis- 
pense for seventy-two thousand reals vellon, a 
year, which, at forty-eight reals a pistole, is 
one hundred and twenty-five pistoles a 
month : he (the contractor) paid me this sum 
this day, as he is obliged to do the first 
day of every month ; and likewise to give 
me for the arrears of the dispense, which 
was near eleven weeks, fourteen thousand 
reals. 

Upon the 15th of December, was seen 
here at Madrid a very great blazing star, 
which to our view appeared with a train 
of twelve or fourteen yards long : it rose at 
first in the south-south-east, about twelve 
o^clock at night, but altered its course 
during the continuance thereof. Within a 
fortnight after its expiration, it appeared at 
six o^clock at night with the rays reversed : 
it continued in our view till the 23rd day 
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December the 22nd , which is the Queen 
of Spain's birth-day, I went to give her 
Majesty joy thereof, and to the Empress, 
and to the Prince of Spain, in such form 
as the custom of this Court is. About this 
time I had sent me by a Genoese mer- 
chant, that was a banker in Madrid, a box 
of about a yard and a half long, and almost 
a yard and a half broad, and a quarter and 
a half deep, covered with green taffety, and 
bound with a silver lace, with lock and 
key ; within it was divided into many par- 
titions, garnished with gilt paper, and filled 
full of the best and choicest sweetmeats all 
dry. I never saw any so beautiful and good 
before or since, besides the curiosity. 

On the 23rd, we were invited to see a 
show, performed by forty-eight of the chiefest 
of the nobility of this Court, who ran two and 
two on horseback, as fast as the horses could 
run, in walks railed in on purpose on both 



LADY FANSHAWE. 235 

sides, before the palace-gate; over which, 
in a balcony, sat the King, the Queen, and 
Empress ; round about, in other balconies, 
sat the nobility of the Court, and in an entre 
suele, at the King's left hand, sat the chief 
of the Ambassadors. My husband and I 
were with the Duke and Duchess de Medina 
de las Torres, in their own particular quarter 
in the palace, which we chose as the best 
place, and having the best view, whereupon 
we refused the balcony. The sight was very 
fine, and the noblemen and horses very 
richly attired. 

Upon the 1st of January, I received of 
our Dispensiero, as was my due, six thou- 
sand reals, for the month's dispense, and 
six thousand more in part of arrears. Upon 
the 4th of January, I waited on the Queen, 
Prince, and Empress, to give them the 
buenas pasquas, as the custom of this 
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On the 5th, here came, among other diver- 
sions of sports we had this Christmas, Juan 
Arana, the famous comedian, who here 
acted about two hours to the admiration of 
all that beheld him, considering that he was 
near upon eighty years of age. About this 
time the Duke of Alva sent my husband a 
fat buck ; I never eat any better in England. 
We do take it for granted in England that 
there is nothing good to eat in Spain, but 
I assure you the want is money alone. 

The 11th of December, the President of 
Castile gave a warrant to an officer to exe- 
cute upon Don Francisco de Ayala, to carry 
him prisoner for some offences by him com- 
mitted. This gentleman lived in a house 
within the protection of my husband's bar- 
riers, very near to his own dwelhng-house ; 
for which reason, no person can give or exe- 
cute a warrant for what crime soever, with- 
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withstanding the officer who executed this 
warrant, being backed by the President of 
Castile, did seize the person of Don Francisco 
de Ayala in his own house, and carried him 
to prison. Notice whereof being given to 
my husband from him, my husband imme- 
diately wrote a letter to the President of 
Castile, demanding the prisoner to be im- 
mediately brought home to his house ; that 
he would not suffer the privilege of the 
King, his master, to be broken, making 
further greater complaint of this usage to 
him ; to which the next day, in a letter, the 
President replied, that an Ambassador had 
no power to protect out of his own house 
and household, with many other ridiculous 
excuses ; but all his allegations being proved 
against him, both by antient and modern 
custom, by hundred of examples, and no- 
thing left him to defend himself but his 
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sued the business with much vigour, telhng 
the gentleman that brought him the Presi- 
dent's letter, that his master, the President, 
as to him had once been very civil, but as to 
the King, his master, most uncivil, both in 
the acting and defending so indecent a busi- 
ness ; for which reason, he would not give 
an answer by letter to the President, be- 
cause his to the Ambassador did not deserve 
one; all which my husband desired the 
gentleman to acquaint the President, his 
master, with. Then my husband visited the 
gentleman in prison, a thing never before 
known of an ambassador ; telling the pri- 
soner openly, before many gentlemen that 
were there accompanying of him, that he 
would have him out, or else that he would 
immediately leave the Court. The great 
number of gentlemen and servants of my 
husband's family gave apprehensions to the 



LADY FANSHAWE. 239 

keeper of the prison, when my husband de- 
manded leave to visit the prisoner. 

The next day, being the Idth, Don Fran- 
cisco de Ayala was visited, by my husband's 
example, by most of the council and nobility 
of this Court. In the evening, in a letter to the 
Duke de Medina de las Torres, my hus- 
band inclosed a memorial to his Catholic 
Majesty, demanding the prisoner, saying, 
he was very sorry that at one time, a few 
years ago, in the year 1650, some Eng- 
lish gentlemen, whereof Mr. Sparks was 
one, did kill one Askew, an agent of Cli- 
vers's to the Catholic King. When they had 
thus done, all those persons and degrees 
made their escape but Mr. Sparks, who took 
sanctuary in one of their churches; notwith- 
standing which, the privilege thereof being 
defended both b}^ the Archbishop of Toledo 
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he was by the King and council pulled out 
of the church and executed, so great at 
that time was the fear that this Court 
had of Oliver ; and now violation of privi- 
ledges should only have been used to his 
Majesty, the King of England, assuring his 
Majesty he neither could nor would put it 
up without ample restitution made. 

Upon the perusal of this memorial, his 
Catholic Majesty did immediately command 
the President of Castile to send his war- 
rant the next day, and to release Don Fran- 
cisco de Ayala, and to send him home ijnme- 
diatelv to mv husband, which was done ac- 
cordingly that night; and my husband, with 
all his coaches and family, which were near 
a hundred persons, carried him and placed 
him in his own house before the officers' 
faces that brought him home from prison. 
All this you will find in your father's trans- 
actions in his Spanish embassy. In this 



LADY FANSHAWE. 241 

action my husband did not receive so much 
content in the victory as the Spaniards of all 
sorts, on whom it made a very great impres- 
sion ; though the chief Minister of state in 
our country did not value this, nor give the 
encouragement to such a noble action as 
was due : and here I will impartially say, 
what I have observed of the Spanish na- 
tion, both in their principles, customs, and 
country. 

I find it a received opinion that Spain 
affords not food either good or plentiful : 
true it is that strangers that neither have 
skill to choose, nor money to buy, will find 
themselves at a loss ; but there is not in the 
Christian world better wines than their mid^ 
land wines are especially, besides sherry 
and Canary. Their water tastes like milk ; 
their corn white to a miracle, and their 
wheat makes the sweetest and best bread in 
the world ; bacon beyond belief good ; the 

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Segovia veal much larger and fatter than 
ours ; mutton most excellent ; capons much 
better than ours. They have a small bird 
that lives and fattens on grapes and corn, 
so fat that it exceeds the quantity of flesh. 
They have the best partridges I ever eat, 
and the best sausages ; and salmon, pikes, and 
sea-breams, which they send up in pickle? 
called ashe veche,^ to Madrid, and dolphins, 
which are excellent meat, besides carps, 
and many other sorts of fish. The cream, 
called nattuos,^ is much sweeter and thicker 
than any I ever saw in England ; their eggs 
much exceed ours ; and so all sorts of 
sallads, and roots, and fruits. What I most 
admired are, melons, peaches, burgamot 
pears, grapes, oranges, lemons, citrons, figs, 
and pomegranates ; besides that I have eaten 
many sorts of biscuits, cakes, cheese, and 
excellent sweetmeats. I have not here men- 
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LADY PANSHAWE. 243 

tioned especially manger-blanc ; and they 
have olives, which are no where so good ; and 
their perfumes of amber excel all the world in 
their kind, both for household stuff and fumes ; 
and there is no such water made as in Seville. 

They have daily curiosities brought from 
Italy and the Indies to this Court, which, 
though I got my death wound in, without 
partiality, I must say, it is the best estab- 
lished, but our own, in the Christian world 
that I ever saw; and I have had the honour 
to live in seven. All Ambassadors live in 
as great splendour as the most ambitious can 
desire, and if they are just and good, with 
as much love as they can deserve. 

In the Palace none serve the King and 
Queen but the chiefest of the nobility and 
ancientest families ; no, not in the meanest 
offices. 

The nation is most superstitiously devout 
in the Roman Catholic religion ; true in 

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trust committed to them to a miracle, 
withstanding all temptations to the con- 
trary, and it hath been tried, particularly 
about Cadiz and St. Lucar, that for eight 
or ten pieces-of-eight, poor men will under- 
take stealing for the merchants their silver 
aboard when their shipping come in, which 
sometimes by the watch for that purpose, 
are taken ; and after their examination 
and refusal to declare whose the silver 
is, or who employed them to steal, they 
are oftentimes racked, which they will suffer 
with all the patience imaginable ; and not- 
withstanding their officers, as they exe- 
cute their punishment, mingle great promises 
of reward if they will confess, yet it was 
never known that any ever confessed ; and 
yet these men are not worth ten pounds in 
the world. 

They are civil to all as their qualities 
require, with the highest respect, so that 



LADY FANSHAWE. 245 

I have seen a grandee and a duke stop their 
horse when an ordinary woman passeth over 
a kennel, because he would not spoil her 
clothes ; and put oft' his hat to the meanest 
woman that makes a reverence, though it be 
their footman's wife. They meddle with 
no neighbour's fortune or person, but their 
own families ; and they are punctual in visits, 
men to men, and women to women. They 
visit not together, except their greatest 
ministers of state, so public ministers' wives 
from princes'. If they have animosities con- 
cerning place, they will by discretion avoid 
ever meeting in a third place, and yet con-» 
verse in each other's houses, all the days of 
their lives, with satisfaction on both sides. 
They are generally pleasant and facetious 
company ; but in this their women exceed, 
who seldom laugh, but never loud ; but the 
most witty in repartees, and stories, and 
notions in the world. They sing, but not 



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well, their way being between Italian and 
Spanish ; they play on all kinds of instru- 
ments likewise, and dance with castanets 
very well. They work bat little, but very 
well, especially in monasteries. They all 
paint white and red, from the Queen to 
the cobler's wdfe, old and young, widows 
excepted, who never go out of close 
mourning, nor wear gloves, nor show their 
hair after their husband's death, and seldom 
marry. They are the finest shaped women 
in the world, not tall ; their hair and teeth 
are most dehcate ; they seldom have many 
children ; there are none love cleanliness in 
diet, clothes, and houses more than they do. 
They dress up their oratories very fine with 
their own work and flowers. 

They have a seed which they sow in the 
latter end of March, like our sweet basil ; 
but it grows up in their pots, which are 
often of China, large, for their windows, so 



LADY FANSHAWE. 247 

delicately, that it is all the summer as round 
as a ball, and as large as the circumference 
of the pot, of a most pleasant green, and 
very good scent. 

They delight much in the feasts of bulls 
and stage plays, and take great pleasure to 
see their little children act before them in 
their own houses, which they will do to 
perfection ; but the children of the greatest 
are kept at great distance from conversing 
with their relations and friends, never eating 
with their parents but at their birth. They 
are carried into an apartment with a priest, 
who says daily the of3fice of their church ; 
a governess, nurse, and under servants, 
who have their allowance according to the 
custom of great men's houses ; so many 
pounds of flesh, fruit, bread and the like, 
with such a quantity of drink, and so much 
a year in money. Until their daughters 
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stairs, nor marry for any consideration 
under their own quality, which to prevent, 
if their fortunes will not procure, they make 
them nuns. They are very magnificent in 
houses, furniture, pictures of the best, jewels, 
plate, and clothes ; most noble in presents, 
entertainments, and in their equipage ; and 
when* they visit, it is with great state and 
attendance. When they travel, they are the 
most jolly persons in the world, dealing 
their provisions of all sorts to every person 
they meet when they are eating. 

One thing I had like to have forgotten to 
tell you. In the palace there never lies but 
one person in the King's apartment, who 
is a nobleman, to wait the Kings's com- 
mands ; the rest are lodged in apartments 
at further distance, which makes the King^s 
side most pleasant, because it is most airy and 
sweet. The King and Queen eat together 
twice a week in public with their children, 



LADY FANSHAWE. . 249 

the rest privately, and asunder. They eat 
often, with flesh to their breakfast, which is 
generally, to persons of quality, a partridge 
and bacon, or capon, or some such thing, 
ever roasted, much chocolate, and sweet- 
meats, and new laid eggs, drinking water 
either cold with snow, or lemonade, or 
some such thing. Their women seldom 
drink wine, their maids never ; they all 
love the feasts of bulls, and strive to ap- 
pear gloriously fine when they see them. 

Upon February the 11th, the Emperor's 
Ambassador's lady visited me. Upon 
Thursday the 19th of February, went from 
us to England, Mr. Charles Bertie, Mr. 
Francis Newport, Sir Andrew King, Sir 
Edmund Turner, Mr. Francis Godolphin, 
Mr. Wycherley, Mr. Hatton, and Mr. Smith, 
with all their servants. This day likewise 
we received letters of the arrival of Mr. 
Price from Elvas, a gentleman of my hus- 



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band's, who had been sent by him on the 
28th of January last past to the King of 
Portugal, upon business of state. 

Upon the 2nd of March, we went to see 
a country house of the Marquessa de Liche, 
who presented me with a dog and bitch, 
perfect greyhounds, and I could put each 
of them in my pocket. 

On Thursday the 5th, I returned the visit 
of the Emperor's Ambassador's lady. March 
the Sth, we went to see a house of Don Juan 
de Congro, at Cham St. Martin. 

On Wednesday the 19th, we went to take 
the air, and dined at Vicalvero. Mr. Price 
came from Lisbon this day to Madrid. 

Upon the 20th of March, 1665, stilo 7wvo, 
upon desire of the Duchess de Medina de 
las Torres, who was then sick, and had long 
k^pt her bed, I visited her Excellency, 
taking all my children with me. After I 
had been there a little while, passing those 



LADY FANSHAWE. 251 

compliments, her Excellency told me that 
her Catholic Majesty had commanded her 
to assure me that her Majesty had a very 
high esteem for me, not only as I was the 
wife of a great King's Ambassador, for 
whom her Majesty had much respect, but 
for my person, and the delight her Majesty 
took in my conversation, assuring me from 
her Majesty that, upon all occasions, I 
should find her most cheerfully willing to 
do me all possible kindness in her Court; 
and for a token thereof, her Majesty had 
herewith sent me a jewel of diamonds, that 
cost the Queen eight thousand five hun- 
dred and fifty ducats, plate, which is about 
two thousand pounds sterling ; which then 
her Excellency did deliver to me, saying 
she thought herself much honoured, and 
much contented, that her Majesty had em- 
ployed her in a business in which she took 
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I desired her Excellency to lay me at 
the feet of her Majesty, and to tell her 
Majesty that I esteemed the honour ac- 
cording as I ought, of whose bounty and 
graces I and mine had abundantly received 
ever since our coming into this kingdom. 
That the ribbon, wherewith the jewel 
was tied, coming from her Majesty, was ^ 
favour of which I should have bragged all 
the days of my life, though I could never 
have deserved it ; much more did I esteem 
so rich a jewel her Majesty was pleased to 
send me ; but, above all, her Majesty's gra- 
cious acceptance of my service, and her 
Majesty's promise of her grace and favour 
to me, in which I desired I might live, 
giving her Excellency many thanks for the 
kindness on her part therein, believing that 
her Excellency had, upon all occasions, made 
my best actions seem double, and winked at 
my imperfections, but that which I did cer- 



LADY FANSHAWE. 253 

tainly know, and desired her Excellency to 
believe, was, that I was her Excellency's 
most humble servant. 

On Tuesday the 24th of March, the Mar- 
quessa de Liche visited me, who had not 
made a visit before in seven years. On 
Thursday the 26th, I returned the visit to 
her Excellency the Marquessa, who enter- 
tained me with a very fine banquet, and 
gave to my youngest girl, Betty, a 
little basket of silver plate, very richly 
wrought. 

On Thurday the 8th of April, being his 
Catholic Majesty's birth-day, I went to give 
the Empress and her Catholic Majesty the 
para bien thereof, and likewise my thanks 
to her Majesty for the many honours she 
had done me, and particularly for that of 
the jewel. 

Upon the 5th of April here appeared a 
new blazing star, rising in the east about 



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two o'clock in the morning, rising every day 
a quarter of an hour later than the former, 
so that it appeared to our view but about 
three weeks, because the day- light obscured. 

Thursday the 23rd of April, we dined 
at a pleasure-house of the King's, three 
leagues from Madrid, called the Torre de 
la Prada. Monday, 26th of April, we went to 
see a garden-house of the Marquis de Liche, 
which had been the Marquis of Fuente^s. 
The house is finely adorned with curious 
pictures painted on the wall, with a very 
fine and large garden thereunto belonging, 
in which on many days following we dined. 

On Saturday the 3rd of May we heard, 
by letters from my father, the sad news of 
the death of my good brother-in-law, my 
Lord Fanshawe ; and, at the same time, of 
his son's being happily married to one of 
the daughters and heirs of Sir John Evelyn, 



LADY FANSHAWE. 255 

of Wiltshire, and widow of Sir John Wray, 
of Lincolnshire. 

May the ^th, 1665, we went to see the 
feast of bulls, in a balcony made at the 
end of a street that looked in even with 
the rows of houses. On the King's right 
hand, just below the councils, which is over 
against all other Ambassadors, there sat the 
Pope's Nuncio, and the rest of the Ambas- 
sadors below him ; but we not owning the 
Pope's priority, your father was placed by 
himself. 

June the SlOth, came to this Court by an 
express, the news of the total rout of the 
King of Spain's army, commanded by the 
Marquis of Carasena, by the Portuguese. 

Upon the 6th of July, went to the feast 
of bulls again. 

Upon the 7th, anno 1665, came to my 
husband the happy news of our victory 



256 MEMOIRS OF 

against the Dutch, fought upon the 13th 
of June, stilo novo, 

August the 6th, at eleven o'clock in the 
morning, was born my son, Richard Fan- 
shawe, God be praised ! and christened at 
four of the clock that afternoon by our 
Chaplain, Mr. Bagshaw : his godfathers my 
cousin Fanshawe, Chief Secretary, and Mr. 
Cooper, Gentleman of the Horse : his god- 
mother, Mrs. Kestian, one of my gentle- 
women. The same day the Duke of Me- 
dina and his Duchess sent to give us joy. 
Upon the 7th the Duke came in person 
to give us joy, with all his best jewels on, 
as the custom of Spain is, to show re- 
spect. 

Upon Thursday the 10th of August, the 
Queen sent one of her Majesty's Major-^ 
domos, the Marquis of Estony, to visit me 
from her Majesty, and to give me joy ; the 
next day her Majesty's Camarera Major, 



LADY FiVNSHAWE. 257 

and the Princess Alva, gave me jovj as did 
likewise most of the others of the greatest 
ladies at court. 

* O, ever living God, through Jesus Christ, 
receive the humble thanks of thy servant 
for thy great mercy to us in our son, M^hom I 
humbly desire thee, O Jesus, to protect ; and 
to make him an instrument of thy glory. Give 
him thy Holy Spirit, O God, to be with him 
all the days of his life ; direct him through 
the narrow paths of righteousness, in faith, 
patience, charity, temperance, chastity, and 
a love and liking of thy blessed will, in all 
the various accidents of this life ; this with 
what outward blessings thou, O Heavenly 
Father, knowest needful for him, I beg of 
thee, not remembering his sins nor the sins 
of us, his parents, nor of our forefathers, 
but thy tender mercy, which thou hast pro- 
mised shall be all over thy M'orks, and for 

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the blessed merits of our only Lord and 
Saviour Jesus Christ; to whom with thee and 
the blessed Spirit be all honour and glory, as 
it was in the beginning, is now, and ever 
shall be. Amen.' 

On Thursday the 17th of September, died 
Philip the Fourth of Spain, having been 
sick but four days, of a flux and fever. The 
day before his death he made his will, and 
left the government of the King and king- 
dom in the hands of his Queen, Donna 
Anna of Austria ; and to assist her Ma- 
jesty, he recommended for her council 
therein, the President of Castile, Conde de 
Castile, the Cardinal of Toledo, the Inqui- 
sitor General, the Marquis of Aytona, the 
Vice-Chancellor of Arragon, and the Conde 
de Penerand. He declared for his suc- 
cessor, Charles the Second, who now reigns ; 
and in case that he should die without issue, 



LADY FANSHAWE. 259 

the Emperor, if he marries the Infanta, now 
called the Empress, to whom he is affianced ; 
but if not, the Infanta before himself; after 
the Emperor, the Duke of Savoy ; the 
Queen of France to inherit next to the In- 
fanta, in case she be a widow, and all her 
children successively, by any other husband ; 
but neither she can inherit nor any child of 
France. 

The body of Philip the Fourth lay ex- 
posed from the 18th of September till 
Saturday night, the 19th, in a great room 
in his palace, at Madrid, where he died ; in 
which room they used to act plays. The 
room was hung with fourteen pieces of the 
King's best hangings, and over them rich 
pictures round about, all of one size, placed 
close together. At the upper end of the room 
was raised a throne of three steps, upon 
which there was placed a bedstead, boarded 
at the bottom, and raised at the head ; the 

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260 MEMOIRS OF 

throne was covered with a rich Persia car- 
pet ; the bottom of the bedstead was of sil- 
ver, the valance and head-cloth, for there 
were no curtains, were cloth of gold, wrought 
in flowers with crimson silk : over the bed- 
stead was placed a cloth of state, of the 
same, with the valance and head-cloth 
of the bedstead, upon which stood a silver- 
gilt coffin, raised about a foot or more higher 
at the head than at the feet, in which was 
laid a pillow, and in the coffin lay Philip 
the Fourth, with . his head on the pillow ; 
upon it a white beaver hat, his head combed, 
his beard trimmed, his face and hands 
painted. He was clothed in a musk colour 
silk suit, embroidered with gold, a goUila 
about his neck, cuffs on his hands, which 
were clasped on his breast, holding a globe 
and a cross on it therein ; his cloak was of 
the same, with his sword by his side ; stock- 
ings, garters, and shoe-strings of the same, 



LADY FANSHAWE. 261 

and a pair of white shoes on his feet. In 
the room were erected six altars for the time, 
upon which stood six candlesticks, with six 
wax candles lighted, and in the middle of 
each altar a crucifix ; the forepart of each 
altar was covered with black velvet, embroi- 
dered with silver. Before the throne a rail 
went across from one side of the room to the 
other. At the two lower corners of the throne, 
at each side, stood a nobleman, the one hold- 
ing an imperial crown, the other the sceptre ; 
and on each side of the throne six high 
candlesticks with six tapers in them. The 
doors of that room were kept by the Major- 
domo of the King and Queen then in wait- 
ing, and the outward by the Italian guard. 

On the Saturday night, he was carried 
upon a bier, hung betwixt two mules, upon 
which the coffin with the King's body was 
laid, covered with a covering of cloth of 
gold, and at every corner of the bier was 



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placed a high crystal lanthorn with lighted 
tapers in it. He was attended by some 
grandees, who rode next after him, and 
other noblemen in coaches, with between 
two and three hundred on horseback, of 
whom a great part carried tapers lighted in 
their hands : this was the company, besides 
footmen. When the King^s body came to the 
Convent of the Escurialj the friars of that 
convent stood at the gate, and there, ac- 
cording to the institution of the place, 
performed the ceremonies as follow. The 
priors asked the grandees, who carried the 
King on their shoulders, for none other must 
touch him, 'Who is in that coffin, and what 
they do there demand?' upon which the 
Sumiller de Corps, who is the Duke de 
Medina de las Torres, answered, 'It is the 
body of Philip the Fourth of Spain, whom 
we here bring for you to lay in his own 
tomb.' Upon which the Duke delivered the 



LADY FANSHAWE. 263 

Queen's letter, as Regent of the kingdom, to 
testify that it was her Majesty "s command, 
that the King's body should be there buried. 
Then the Prior read the letter, and accom- 
panied the body before the high altar, where 
it was for some time placed, till they had 
performed the usual ceremonies for that time 
appropriated. After which the grandees took 
up the corpse again, and carried it down 
into the Pantheon, into which as soon as 
they were entered, the Prior demanded of 
the Duke the covering of the King's body as 
his fee. 

Then demanded he the keys, upon which 
the Duke delivered him his, as Sumiller de 
Corps, and then the prior's own sent him 
by the Queen, and the Major-domo then in 
waiting delivered him his. The Prior hav- 
ing received these three keys, demanded 
franca of the Duke and Major-domo, that 
in that coffin was the body of Philip the 



264 MEMOIRS OF 

Fourth ; and when they had done, they there 
left the body with the Prior, who after the 
body's lying some time in the place where 
the infants are buried, placed it in his own 
tomb. 

My husband with all his family and 
coaches were put into mourning for Philip 
the Fourth of Spain. 

October the 4th following, I waited upon 
the Queen to give her Majesty pesame of 
the King's death, who received me with great 
grace and favour, as likewise did the King 
and the Empress, who were both present. 

On the 8th of October my husband and 
I, with all our family and son, being the first 
time he went out of doors, went to the Placa 
Mayor to hear and see King Charles the 
Second proclaimed by the Duke de Medina 
de las Torres, who was very richly apparelled 
in a silk suit embroidered with silver and 
gold, set with diamond buttons : he was 



LADY FANSHAWE. 265 

accompanied by most of the nobles in the 
town on horseback, as he himself was. In 
his right hand he carried the King's royal 
standard, and by his left side rode the 
Mayor of the town ; the Heralds that rode 
before went first upon the scaffold, which 
was there made for that purpose before the 
King's balcony, w^here he was wont to see 
juego de torres. The scaffold was cover- 
ed w^ith carpets ; on each side of the Duke 
stood the Heralds, and on his left hand 
stood the Mayor, and by the Heralds 
two Notaries. The King was proclaimed in 
five places ; at the Court above named, at 
the Descalcas Reales, at the Town House, 
at the Gate of Gadajara, and at the Pa- 
lace. 

November the 9th, I went to give the 
Queen the para bien of the King's birth-day, 
who, the 6th of this month, completed four 
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with great grace and favour, causing the 
King to come in and receive of me the 
para bien of his anos hkewise. 

The 14th of this month I went to wait 
on the Camarera Major and the Marquis 
de la Vel, the King's Ay a, from both of 
whom I received great kindnesses. 

December the 17th, 1665, my husband, 
upon the part of our King, his master, and 
the Duke de Medina de las Torres, on the 
part of his Catholic Majesty, did conclude 
and signed together the peace between 
England and Spain, and the articles for the 
adjustment between Spain and Portugal, 
which articles were cavilled at by the Lord 
Chancellor Clarendon and his party, that 
they might have an opportunity to send 
the Earl of Sandwich out of the way from 
the Parliament, which then sat, and who, as 
he and his friends feared, would be severely 
punished for his cowardice in the Dutch 



LADY FANSHAWE. 267 

fight. He neither understood the customs 
of the Court, nor the language, nor indeed 
any thing but a vicious hfe, and thus was 
he shuffled into your father's employment to 
reap the benefit of his five years' negociation 
of the peace between England, Spain, and 
Portugal ; and after above thirty years stu- 
dying state affairs, and many of them in the 
Spanish Court: so much are Ambassadors 
slaves to the public ministers at home, who 
often, through envy or ignorance, ruin them. 

December the ^3rd, I went to give the 
Queen the para bien of her anos, whereof 
she had completed thirty-one. I likewise 
gave joy to the Empress and the King, 
who were both then present. 

The 6th of January, 1666, twelfth-day, 
stilo novo^ my husband sent Mr. John Price, 
one of his secretaries, to Lisbon, to advertise 
that King, by the Conde de Castell Melhor, 
of his intended journey the week following. 



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On the 14th of this present January, the 
Duke of Medina de las Torres wrote a 
letter to my husband, by the command of 
her Catholic Majesty, which said, that for 
the great kindness and pains he had and 
did take for the accommodating a peace be- 
tween England and Spain, and procuring 
a truce for thirty years between the crowns 
of Spain and Portugal, that, on the day of 
the ratification thereof, her Majesty did 
give him* an hundred thousand pieces-of- 
eight, and likewise for a further expression of 

* These gratifications were never paid, because my 
Lord Sandwich was sent to receive what advantage he 
could make. But the body of the peace being concluded 
before by my husband, he received very small advantage 
thereby ; but had my husband lived, he would, through 
their justice and kindness to him, for his great wisdom 
and indefatigable pains in procuring a triple peace 
between the three crowns of England, Spain, and Por- 
tugal, have received a sum. 



LADY FANSHAWE. 269 

her Majesty's kindness, to me fifty thou- 
sand pieces-of-eight. 

The l6th of January, 1666, being twelfth- 
day, Enghsh account, my husband began 
his journey from Madrid to Portugal. The 
day before he went, her Catholic Majesty 
sent the Marquis Itonia to offer a set of her 
Majesty's machos to carry his litter, and 
another set for his coach, but my husband 
refused both, with many humble thanks 
to her Majesty for so great grace and ho- 
nour done him, which he refused upon no 
other score but the consideration of the 
length of the journey, and the badness of 
the way, which the time of the year 
caused, which would expose the beasts to 
that hazard, as he could not satisfy himself 
to put them in; and although my husband 
was next day pressed again to receive this 
favour, yet he refused it with much respect 



270 MEMOIRS OF 

to her Majesty, for the forenamed reasons. 
Likewise the Duke de Medina de las Torres 
sent two sets of very brave machos to con- 
vey my husband to Portugal, which he re- 
fused with many thanks to his Excellency 
upon the same account he had done those 
formerly to her Majesty. My husband car- 
ried none of his own horses or mules, but 
hired all he used for himself or his retinue. 
He went in his own litter, and carried one 
of his own coaches with him, five sumpters, 
covered with his own sumpter cloths. His 
retinue were : — Mr. Fanshawe, Chief Secre- 
tary ; Mr. Price, gone before to Lisbon ; 
Mr. Cooper, Gentleman of the Horse ; Mr. 
Bagshawe, Chaplain ; Mr. Ashburnham, 
Mr. Parry, Mr. Creighton, Mr. Eyres, 
vSteward; Mr. Weeden, Mr. Jemmet, Mr. 
Bumstead, Pages; Mr. Hello w, Butler; 
William, a Cook; Francis, a Groom; Frances 
a Laundress, and four Spanish footmen. 



LADY FANSHAWE. 271 

To every five mules went a moco, and a 
sabre stante over all. Her Majesty sent an 
alguazil of the court with my husband 
through Spain, to provide him lodgings, and 
to assist him in all other occasions belonging 
to his journey. I accompanied my husband 
a league out of town in our coach of state ; 
then he entered his litter, and so began his 
journey. 

Within an hour after I was returned 
to my house, the Duke and Duchess de 
Medina de las Torres sent each of them a 
gentleman with very kind messages to me 
on the part of their Excellencies. 

The lyth, came the Master of the Cere- 
monies to see me, and offered the service 
of this Court, with high compliments and 
much kindness ; the 18th, came the Duke of 
Avero to see me, and afterwards the Mar- 
quis of Trusifall ; the 19th, came to see 
me the Baron of Lisola's lady ; the 20th 



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of January, I received a letter from my 
husband at Toledo ; the SGth, the Marquis 
de Leche came to visit me ; the ^Sth, the 
Duchess de Aveyro sent a gentleman to 
me, to excuse her not coming to see me, by 
reason of her being with child, and not hav- 
ing stirred out of her chamber from the 
time she had conceived with child ; the 
29th I received a letter from my husband, 
from Frexenal. 

The 2nd of February, the Duke de Me- 
dina de las Torres sent to me Don Nicolas 
Navas, with letters from her Catholic Ma- 
jesty herself to my husband, and putting up 
the packet here before me, inclosed my let- 
ters therein, I giving a cover, and sealing it 
with my seal, and a passport to the post that 
carried it, to come and go ; all which was 
required of me by his Excellency, who was 
pleased to continue this for me. every post 



LADV FANSHAWE. 273 

that he sent during my husband's stay in 
Portugal. 

The 12th of February, the Duchess of 
Alburquerque sent a gentleman to excus^ her 
not visiting me^ her Excellency being sick 
of a fever. This night likewise the Duke 
sent a second post to my husband as before. 
The ISth, Father Patricio came to visit me, 
from the Duke ; the 17th, died the Queen- 
mother of Portugal ; the 20th, the Duke 
despatched a third post to my husband ; the 
^3rd, the Duke and his Duchess came to 
visit me in very great state, having six 
coaches and two sedans to wait on them, 
and above a hundred gentlemen and at- 
tendants ; the 27th, one of the three posts 
returned from my husband ; another on the 
2nd of March ; the third on the 10th. 

On the 8th of March, 1666, sfilo novo, 
my husband returned from Lisbon to this 

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Court, with all his family in very good 
health, God be praised ! I went with my 
children two leagues out of town, to Ricon, 
to meet him. He brought in his company 
Sir Robert Southwell, an envoyado from our 
King to Portugal and Spain, if need so 
required. My husband entertained him at 
his house three weeks and odd davs. 

Upon the 26th of March, came a letter 
from Corunna, advertising this Court of the 
Earl of Sandwich's arrival, as Extraordinary 
Ambassador from our King to his Catholic 
Majesty. 

Sunday the 12th of April, I took my leave 
of the Queen of Spain, and Empress, and 
the King, and the next day of the Camarera 
Mayor, and of the King's Aya. 

The 13th of April, returned from hence 
a gentleman named Mr. Weeden, who came 
hither on the 6th of the same month, bring- 
ing letters to this Court and my husband 



LADY FANSHAWE. 275 

from his Lord, the Earl of Sandwich, and 
likewise a list of the Extraordinary Ambas- 
sador's family, which was as follow^s : — 

Mr. Sidney Montague, his son ; Sir 
Charles Herbert, Mr. Steward, Mr.Godolphin, 
Secretary to the Embassy ; Mr. Worden, 
Mr. Bedles, Mr. Cotterrel, Mr. Bridges, Mr. 
Clarke, Mr. Melham, Mr. Stuard, Mr. 
Linch, Mr. Boddie, Interpreter ; Mr. Par- 
ker, Mr. Shere, Mr. Moore, Chaplain ; The 
Steward; Captain Ferrer, Gentleman of the 
Horse ; Mr. William Ferrer, Mr. Gateley, 
Clergyman ; Mr. Gibbs, Mr. Boreman, 
Clerk of the Kitchen ; Mr. Lond, Mr. 
Veleam, Mr. Mallard; Mr. Richard Jarald, 
Mr. Joseph Chaumond, Under Secretaries ; 
Francis Paston, Confectioner; Henry Pyman, 
Butler ; Gentleman, Mr. Cooke ; Balfoure 
and Attenchip, two Cooks ; Allion Thomp- 
son, Trumpeter ; William Killegrew, Thomas 
Rice, William Rich, Francis Warrington, 

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276 MEMOIRS OF 

James Ashton, Mr. Place, John Beverley, 
Briggs, Richard Cooper, Mr. Kerke, Mr. 
Churchill, Mr. JefFereys, Mr. Crown, Pages, 
ten; Mr. Nicholas Neito, Mr. Righton, Ed- 
ward Hooton, Richard Russel, Andrew Daniel; 
Peacock, Dennis, Footmen ; Thomas Gibson, 
Thomas Williams, Josias Brown, Gaspar, 
el negro ; Nathaniel Bennet ; the Nurse, her 
Husband, two Maids, Nicholas Bennet, 
Henry Mitchell, and John Goods. 

On the 14th I took my leave of the 
Duchess de Medina de las Torres, the 
Marquessa de Trucifall, and the Condessa 
Torres Vedra. On the I5th, I took my 
leave of the Duchess de Aveiro, who gave 
my daughter Katharine a jewel of twenty- 
seven emeralds, and to my daughter Mar- 
garet a crystal box set in gold, and a large 
silver box of amber pastilles to burn ; and 
to my daughter Ann a crystal bottle, with a 
gold neck, full of amber water, and a silver 



LADY FANSHAWE. 277 

box of filagree, and to my daughter Betty 
a little trunk of silver wire, made in the 
Indies. This day I likewise visited the 
Marquessa de Liche, and daughter-in-law 
of the Almirante of Castile, the Baron de 
Lisola's lady, and Don Diego Tinojo's lady, 
who all had visited me. 

On the l6th, I took my leave of the 
Duchess of Albuquerque, and her Excellency 
Donna Maria de la Coyna. The Duchess 
showed me a large room full of gilt and 
silver plate, which they said cost a hun- 
dred thousand pistoles, though to my 
eye it did not seem of half the worth. 
It was made for the Duke^s journey into 
Germany, being the principal person en- 
trusted to dispose of her Imperial Majesty's 
family and money for her voyagje to that 
Court, and afterwards he and his lady are to 
return to Sicily, and there to remain Vice- 
roy. The same day I took my leave of the 



278 MEMOIRS OF 

German Ambassador's lady. Easter-day 
being the 25th of April, 1666, the Infanta 
Donna Maria was married to the Emperor 
by proxy, viz. the Duke de Medina de las 
Torres^ 

THE CEREMONY. 

First went a great high coach of the 
Duke's, drawn by four black Flanders' mares, 
in it were the Duchess's two sons, with other 
persons of quality. In Madrid none can 
go with six horses but the King or Queen, 
as I said before. Then went the Duke's 
coach, a most exceeding rich one, drawn 
by four grey Flanders' mares, in the upper 
end whereof the Duke himself sat with the 
German Ambassador on his right hand, the 
Duke of Alva on his left, in the other end 
the Conde de Peneranda, between the Duke 
of Pastrane and his son. After this coach 
followed immediately the Duke of Medina's 



LADY FANSHAWE. 279 

Gentleman of the Horse, upon a very fine 
white one. Then went a very rich new 
coach, empty, of the German Ambassador's, 
made on purpose for the day, drawn by 
four horses. Then followed another of the 
Dukes's coaches with some of his gentlemen 
in it ; then the German Ambassador's second 
coach, with some of his gentlemen in it. 
Then one of the Duke's coaches, in which 
was the Baron de Lisle, Envoy Extraordi- 
nary from the Emperor, and one person 
with him ; then another of the Duke's 
coaches with more of his gentlemen. Then 
another of the German Ambassador's 
coaches with more of his family in it. The 
Duke's pages walked by his coach, and had 
gold chains across their shoulders. The 
Baron de Lisle's went in some of the before- 
named coaches. 

On Monday the 26th, Don John of 
Austria came to Court to give the Empress 



280 MEMOIRS OF 

joy, but the ceremony performed, re- 
turned immediately, the same day, to a 
retiring place his Highness had at Ocana, 
near Aranjuez, which famous seat of royal 
recreation, for a farewell, the Empress lay 
at night at, being in her way to Denia, 
where she was to embark. Don John, from 
Ocana, accompanied her Imperial Majesty 
two or three days^ journey. 

On Tuesday the 27th, my husband, (in- 
vited there by the Master of the Ceremonies, 
and then to come in short mourning, with 
something of jewels,) gave to the Empress 
joy in his master's name, also to the 
Queen jointly sent ; and then giving her 
daughter the hand. Sir Robert Southwell 
was admitted to accompany him in like 
manner, and perform the same function. 

On Wednesday the 2|th of April, her Im- 
perial Majesty went from the palace to the 
Descalcas Reales, and from thence to the 



LADY FANSHAWE. 281 

Atocke, from whence she began her journey 
for Vienna. Her passing through the town 
was in this manner. 

First passed several persons of quahty in 
their coaches, intermixed with others. Then 
the two Lieutenants of her Catholic Ma- 
jesty's guards on horseback; then the two 
Captains of the said guards, the Marquis 
de Sehna, and the Marquis de Malpica, on 
horseback. Then a coach of respect, lined 
with cloth of gold, mixed with green. Then 
a litter of respect lined with the same stuff; 
then four trumpeters on horseback ; then 
the Duke of Albuquerque, in a plain coach ; 
then twenty-four men upon horses and 
mules, with portmanteaus before them; then 
two trumpeters more ; then the Empress and 
her Camarera Mayor (Condessa de Bene- 
vente) in a plain large coach. Then eight 
men without cloaks on horseback, who I 
presume were pages to her Catholic Ma- 



282 MEMOIRS OF 

jesty ; then the Empress's nurse, and four 
or five pretty children of hers in a coach ; 
then four young ladies with caps and white 
feathers with black specks in them in ano- 
ther coach ; then duennas or ancient ladies ; 
then more young ladies with caps and black 
hats, pinned up with rich jew^els; then another 
coach with young ladies ; then followed 
many other coaches irregularly. 

The Duke de Medina de las Torres, as 
also the German Ambassador, and many 
of the nobility of Spain, went out of town, 
and stayed about a league off for the Em- 
press's coming that way. All the meaner 
sort of her Imperial Majesty's train and her 
carriages, as also the Duke of Albuquerque's, 
went before. 

On Monday the 26th, I wrote to the Ca- 
marera Mayor, and the Empress's Aya, 
giving both their Majesties joy of this mar- 
riage. 



LADY FANSHAWE. 283 

May the 5th, we dined at Salvatierra, two 
leagues from Madrid, and returned again at 
night. 

On Friday the gth of May, 1666, came 
to Madrid the Earl of Sandwich, Ambassa- 
dor Extraordinary from our King to the 
Queen Regent of this kingdom. My hus- 
band went with all his train two leagues 
to welcome and conduct him to this Court. 
This day twenty- two years we were married. 

The 29th, my Lord of Sandwich deli- 
vered my husband the King's letters of re- 
vocation, and therewith a private letter of 
great grace and favour. This afternoon 
my Lord Sandwich wdth most part of his 
train came to visit me. 

June the pth, stilo novo, being the King^s 
birth-day, my husband made an entertain- 
ment for my Lord of Sandwich, with all 
his retinue and the rest of the English at 
Madrid. 



284 MEMOIRS OF 

The next [Sun-] day, being Whit Sunday,* 
my husband went with the Earl of Sandwich 
to a private audience, where my husband in- 
troduced him to the King of Spain. Mon- 
day the 14th, my husband went with the 
Earl of Sandwich to the Duke de Medina 
de las Torres. 

On the ^^th, being Tuesday ,*f' my husband 
was taken ill with an ague, but turned to a 
malignant inward fever, of which he lay 
until the 26th of the same month, being 
Sunday, J until eleven of the clock at night, 
and then departed this life, fifteen days be- 
fore his intended journey to England. 

' O all powerful good God, look down 
from Heaven upon the most distressed 
wretch upon earth. See me with my soul 
divided, my glory and my guide taken from 

* This was the last time my husband received the 
communion. 
t Query VJth June. + Query, Saturday, gth June. 



LADY FANSHAWE. 285 

me, and in him all my comfort in this life ; 
see me staggering in my path, which made 
me expect a temporal blessing for a reward 
of the great integrity, innocence, and up- 
rightness of his whole life, and his patience 
in suffering the insolency of wicked men, 
whom he had to converse with upon the public 
employment, which thou thoughtest fit, in 
thy wisdom, to exercise him in. Have pity 
on me, O Lord, and speak peace to my 
disquieted soul, now sinking under this great 
weight, which, without thy support, cannot 
sustain itself. See me, O Lord, with five 
children, a distressed family, the temptation 
of the change of my religion, the want of 
all my friends, without counsel, out of my 
country, without any means to return with 
my sad family to our own country, now in 
war with most part of Christendom. But, 
above all, my sins, O Lord, I do lament 
with shame and confusion, believing it is 



286 MEMOIRS OF 

them for which I receive this great punish- 
ment. Thou hast showed me many judg- 
ments and mercies, which did not reclaim 
me, nor turn me to thy holy conversation, 
which the example of our blessed Saviour 
taught. Lord, pardon me ; O God, forgive 
whatsoev^er is amiss in me ; break not a 
bruised reed. I humbly submit to thy jus- 
tice ; I confess my wretchedness, and know 
I have deserved not only this but everlasting 
punishment : but, O my God, look upon me 
through the merits of my Saviour, and for 
his sake save me : do with me and for me 
what thou pleasest, for I do wholly rely on 
thy mercy, beseeching thee to remember thy 
promises to the fatherless and widow, and 
enable me to fulfil thy will cheerfully in this 
world ; humbly beseeching thee that, when 
this mortal life is ended, I may be joined 
with the soul of my dear husband, and all 
thy servants departed this life in thy faith 



LADY FANSHAWE. 287 

and fear, in everlasting praises of thy Holy 
Name. Amen/ 

The next day my husband was embalmed. 
The next day I began to receive messages 
from the Queen and the Court of Spain. 

July the 4th, stilo novo, 1666, my hus- 
band was buried by his own Chaplain, with 
the ceremony of the Church of England, and 
a sermon preached by him. In the even- 
ing I sent the body of my dear hus- 
band to Bilboa, intending suddenly to fol- 
low him : he went out of town privately, 
being accompanied only by a part of his 
own retinue. His body arrived safe at Bilboa 
on the 14th of July, 1666, and was laid in 
the King's house. Mr. Cooper, Gentleman 
of his Horse ; Mr. Jemett, who waited on 
him in his bed-chamber ; Mr. Rookes, Mr. 
Weeden, Mr. Carew, Richard Batha, Francis. 

The 5th of July, 1666, stilo novo^ the 



288 MEMOIRS OF 

Queen-mother sent the Master of the Ce- 
remonies of Spain to invite me to stay 
with all my children in her Court, pro- 
mising me a pension of thirty thousand 
ducats a year, and to provide for my chil- 
dren if I and they would turn our religion 
and become Roman Catholics. I answered, 
I humbly thanked her Majesty for her great 
grace and favour, which I would ever 
esteem and pay Math my services, as far as 
I was able, all the days of my life ; for the 
latter I desired her Majesty to believe that 
I could not quit the faith in which I had 
been born and bred, and in which God had 
pleased to try me for many years in the 
greatest troubles our nation hath ever seen, 
and that I do believe and hope in the pro- 
fession of my own religion. God would hear 
my prayers, and reward her Majesty, and all 
the princes of that royal family, for this so 
great favour which her Majesty was pleased 
to offer me in my greatest affliction. 



LADY FANSHAWE. 289 

The 6th and 7th days of this month, I 
was visited by the German Ambassador's 
lady, and several other ladies ; also by the 
Ambassador and the Duke de Medina de 
las Torres de Avero, Marquis de Trucifall, 
Conde de Monterey, with several others 
of that Court. 

The Queen sent me, for a present, 
two thousand pistoles, which her Majesty 
sent me word was to buy my husband a 
jewel if he had lived. The week following 
I gave the Secretary of State a gold watch 
and chain, worth thirty pounds. I gave the 
Master of the Ceremonies, at my coming 
away, a clock, which cost me forty pounds. 
I sold all my coaches and horses, and lumber 
of the house, to the Earl of Sandwich for 
one thousand three hundred and eighty 
pistoles. I likewise sold there one thou- 
sand pounds' worth of plate to several 
persons, all the money I could make being 

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290 MEMOIRS OF 

little enough for my most sad journey to 
England. 

The 8th of July, 1666, at night, I took 
my leave of Madrid, and of the Siete 
Chimineas, the house so beloved of my 
husband and me formerly. I carried with 
me all my jewels, and the best of my 
plate, and other precious rarities, all the 
rest being gone before to Bilboa, with 
part of my family. All the women went in 
litters, and the men on horseback. Myself, 
my son, and four daughters, one gentle- 
woman, one chamber-maid, Mr. Fanshawe, 
my husband's Secretary; Mr. Price, the 
Chaplain, Mr. Bagshawe, Mr. Creyton, Mr. 
White, Mr. Hellowe, John Burton, Wilham, 
the Cook ; besides other Spanish atten- 
dants. 

My Lord Sandwich came in the after- 
noon to accompany me out of town, which 



LADY FANSHAWE. 291 

offer, though earnestly pressed by my Lord, 
as well as by other persons of quality, I 
refused, desiring to go out of that place as 
privately as I could possibly, and, I may 
truly say, never any Ambassador's family 
came into Spain more gloriously, or went 
out so sad. 

July the 21st, after a tedious journey, we 
arrived at Bilboa, to which place my dear 
husband's body came the 14th of this 
month, and was lodged in the King^s house, 
with some of his servants to attend him ; 
but I hired a house in the town during my 
stay there, in which I received several 
letters from Madrid, from England, and 
from Paris. The Queen-mother was gra- 
ciously pleased to procure me passes from 
the King of France, which I received the 
21st of September, stilo novo, accompanied 
by a letter from my Lady Guilford, and 

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292 MEMOIRS OF 

several others of her Majesty^s Court; Hke- 
Mise I did receive a pass from the Duke of 
Beaufort, then at Lixa. 

October the Ist, I sent answers of letters 
to England, to my Lord Arlington , brother 
Warwick, my father, and to several other 
persons. Here I heard the sad news of the 
burning of London. 

December the 3rd, being Sunday, I began 
my journey from Bilboa, with the body of 
my dear husband, all my children, and all my 
family but three, whom I left to come with 
my goods by sea. The 7th of October, we 
came to Bayonne, in France, having had 
a dangerous passage between Spain and 
France. October the 9th, we began our 
journey from Bayonne towards Paris, where 
we arrived the 30th of October, being 
Saturday. 

November the 2nd, the Queen-mother 
sent my Lady Guilford to condole my loss. 



LADY FANSHAWE. 293 

and welcome me to Paris : many of her 
Majesty's family, of their own accord, did 
the same. 

On the 26th, her Majesty sent Mr. 
Church, in one of her coaches, to convey 
me to Challiot, a nunnery, where the Queen 
then was, who received me with great grace 
and favour, and promised me much kind- 
ness, when her Majesty returned to Eng- 
land. Her Majesty sent by me letters to the 
King, Queen, Duke, and Duchess of York, 
with a box of writings for her Majesty^s 
Secretary, Sir John Winter. 

November the 11th, we began our jour- 
ney towards Calais, and upon the 11th 
of November, old style, we embarked at 
Calais in a little French man-of-war, which 
carried me to the Tower Wharf, where I 
landed the next day, at night, being Mon- 
day, at twelve of the clock. I made a little 
stay with my children at my father's house, 



294 MEMOIRS OF 

Oil Tower-hill. The next day, being the 
13th, we all went to my own house in Lin- 
coln's-inn Fields, on the north side, where 
the widow Countess of Middlesex had lived 
before ; and the same day, likewise, was 
brought the body of my dear husband. 

On Saturday following, being the l6th of 
November, 1666, I sent the body of my 
dear husband to be laid in my father's vault 
in Allhallows Church, in Hertford : none 
accompanied the hearse but seven of his 
own gentlemen, who had taken care of his 
body all the way from Madrid to London ; 
being Mr. Fanshawe, Mr. Bagshawe, Mr. 
Cooper, Mr. Freyer, Mr. Creyton, Mr. Tar- 
ret, and Mr. Rooks. 

On the 18th, my Lord Arlington visited 
me, proffering me his friendship, to be 
shown in the procuring of arrears of my 
husband's pay, which was two thousand 
pounds, and to reimburse me five thousand 



LADY FANSHAWE. 295 

eight hundred and fifteen pounds my hus- 
band had laid out in his Majesty's ser- 
vice. Likewise I was visited to welcome 
me into England, and to condole my loss 
by very many of the nobility and gentry, 
and also by all my relations in these parts. 

November the 23rd, I waited on the King, 
and delivered to his Majesty my whole ac- 
counts. He was pleased to receive me very 
graciously, and promised me they should be 
paid, and likewise that his Majesty would 
take care of me and mine. Then I deli- 
vered his Majesty the letters I brought from 
the Queen-mother ; then I. did my duty to 
the Queen, who with great sense condoled 
my loss, after which I delivered the Queen- 
mother's letter sent to her Majesty by me. 
After staying two hours longer in her Ma- 
jesty^s bed-chamber, I waited on his Royal 
Highness, who having condoled me on the 
loss of my dear husband, promised me 



296 MEMOIRS OF 

a ship to send for my goods and servants to 
Bilboa ; then I waited on the Duchess, who 
with great grace and favour received me, and 
having been with her Highness about an 
hour, and delivered a letter from the Queen- 
mother, I took my leave. I presented the 
King, Queen, Duke of York, and Duke of 
Cambridge with two do2en of amber skins, 
and six dozen of gloves. I likewise presented 
my Lord Arlington with amber skins, gloves, 
and chocolate, and a great picture, a copy of 
Titian's, to the value of one hundred pounds, 
and I made presents to Sir William Coventry, 
and several other persons then in office. 

In February, the Duke ordered me the 
Victory frigate, to bring the remainder of 
my goods and people from Bilboa, in Spain, 
which safely arrived in the latter end of 
March, 166*7. I spent my time much in 
soliciting and petitioning my Lord Treasurer 
Southampton, for the present despatch of my 



LADY FANSHAWE. 297 

accounts, which did pass the Secretary, then 
Lord Arhngton, and within two months I 
got a privy seal for my money, without 
either fee or present, which I could never 
fasten on my Lord. Now I thought myself 
happy, and feared nothing less than further 
trouble. God, that only knows what is to 
come, so disposed my fortune, that losing 
that good man and friend, Lord Southamp- 
ton, my money, which was five thousand 
six hundred pounds, was not paid me until 
December, 1669? notwithstanding I had tal- 
lies for the money above two years before. 
This was above two thousand pounds loss to 
me ; besides, these commissioners, by the 
instigation of one of their fellow-commis- 
sioners, my Lord Shaftesbury, the worst of 
men, persuaded them that I might pay for the 
Embassy plate, which I did, two thousand 
pounds, and so maliciously did he oppress 
me, as if he hoped in me to destroy that 



298 MEMOIRS OF 

whole stock of honesty and innocence which 
he mortally hates. In this great distress I 
had no remedy but patience ; how far that 
was from a reward, judge ye, for near thirty 
years' suffering by land and sea, and the 
hazard of our lives over and over, with the 
many services of your father, and the ex- 
pense of all the monies we could procure, 
and seven years' imprisonment, with the 
death and beggary of many eminent persons 
of our family, who when they first entered 
the King's service, had great and clear 
estates. Add to this the careful manage- 
ment of the King's honour in the Spanish 
Court, after my husband's death, which I 
thought myself bound to maintain, although 1 
had not, God is my witness, above twenty- 
five doubloons by me at my husband's death, 
to bring home a family of three score ser- 
vants, but was forced to sell one thousand 
pounds* worth of our own plate, and to spend 



LADY FANSHAWE. 299 

the Queen's present of two thousand dou- 
bloons in my journey to England, not owing 
nor leaving one shilling debt in Spain, I 
thank God, nor did my husband leave any 
debt at home, which every Ambassador can- 
not say. Neither did these circumstances fol- 
lowing prevail to mend my condition, much 
less found I that compassion I expected upon 
the view of myself, that had lost at once my 
husband, and fortune in him, with my son 
but twelve months old in mv arms, four 
daughters, the eldest but thirteen years of 
age, with the body of my dear husband 
daily in my sight for near six months toge- 
ther, and a distressed family, all to be by 
me in honour and honesty provided for, and 
to add to my afflictions, neither persons sent 
to conduct me, nor pass, nor ship, nor money 
to carry me one thousand miles, but some 
few letters of compliment from the chief 
ministers, bidding ' God help me !' as they do 



300 MEMOIRS OF 

to beggars, and they might have added, ' they 
had nothing for me/ with great truth. But 
God did hear, and see, and help me, and 
brought my soul out of trouble ; and by his 
blessed providence, I and you live, move, 
and have our being, and I humbly pray God, 
that that blessed providence may ever sup- 
ply our wants. Amen. 

Seeing what I had to trust to, I began to 
shape my life as well as I could to my for- 
tune, in order whereunto I dismissed all my 
family but some few persons. At my arrival 
I gave them all mourning, and five pounds 
a piece, and put most of them into a good 
way of living, I thank God. 

In 16679 I took a house in Holborn-row, 
Lincoln^s-inn Fields, for twenty-one years, of 
Mr. Cole. This year I christened a daughter 
of Lord Fanshawe's. Here, in this year, I 
only spent my time in lament and dear re- 
membrances of my past happiness and for- 



LADY FAN SHAW E. 301 

tune ; and though I had great graces and 
favours from the King and Queen, and whole 
Court, yet I found at the present no remedy. 
I often reflected how many miscarriages and 
errors the fall from that happy estate I had 
been in would throw me ; and as it is hard 
for the rider to quit his horse in a full career, 
so I found myself at a loss, that hindered 
my settling myself in a narrow compass 
suddenly, though my narrow fortune re- 
quired it ; but I resolved to hold me fast by 
God, until I could digest, in some measure, 
my afflictions. Sometimes I thought to 
quit the world as a sacrifice to your father^s 
memory, and to shut myself up in a house 
for ever from all people ; but upon the con- 
sideration of my children, who were all 
young and unprovided for, being wholly 
left to my care and disposal, I resolved to 
suffer, as long as it pleased God, the storms 
and flows of fortune. 



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As soon as I got my tallies placed again 
by the Commissioners, I sold them for five 
hundred pounds less than my assignments 
to Alderman Buckwell, who gave me ready 
money, and I put it out upon a mortgage of 
Sir Richard Aylofe's estate, in Essex, at 
Braxted. 

In 1668, I hired a house and ground, of 
sixty pounds a year, at Hartingfordbury, in 
Hertfordshire, to be near my father, being 
but two miles from Balls, both because I 
would have my father's company, and be- 
cause the air was very good for my chil- 
dren ; but when God took my father, I let 
my time in it, and never saw it more. 

About this time. Sir Philip Warwick 
retired himself from public business, to 
his house at Frog-pool, in Kent ; his 
son and daughter-in-law lived with him 
some time, until this year, I669? they went 



LADY FANSHAWE. 303 

into France. She was the daughter and 
coheir of the Lord Freschville. 

In my brother Warwick's house, in Lon- 
don, in 1666, died my sister Bedell, and 
was carried down into Huntingdonshire, to 
Hamerton, and was there buried by her 
husband in the chancel. She was a most 
worthy woman, and eminently good, wise, 
and handsome ; she never much enjoyed 
herself since the death of her eldest daughter, 
who married Sir Francis Compton, and, in 
her right, he had Hamerton, in Hunting- 
donshire. She died five years before my 
sister, a most dutiful daughter, and a very 
fine-bred lady, and excellent company, and 
very virtuous. 

About this time died my brother Lord 
Fanshawe's widow. She was a very good 
wife and tender mother, but else nothing 
extraordinary. She was buried in the vault 



304 MEMOIRS OF 

of her husband's family in Ware church. 
Within a year after this, his son, Lord Fan- 
shawe, sold Ware Park for 26,000/. to Sir 
Thomas Byde, a brewer, of London. 

Thus, in the fourth generation, the chief of 
our family, since they came into the south, for 
their sufferings for the crown, sold the flower 
of their estates, and near 2000/. a year more. 
There remains but the Remembrancer's 
place of the Exchequer office : and very 
pathetical is the motto of our arms for us— 
' The victory is in the Cross.' 

I had, about this time, some trouble with 
keeping the lordships of Tring and Hitching, 
which your father held of the Queen-mother ; 
but I not being able to make a considerable 
advantage of them, gave them up again : -and. 
then I sold a lease of the Manor of Burstal- 
garth, which was granted for thirty-one years 
to your father from the King. Dean Hicks 
bought it, it being convenient for him, lying 



LADY FANSHAWE. 305 

upon Humber. There was a widow, one 
Mrs. Hiliard, hired this manor, and had 
so done long. She was very earnest to 
buy it at a very under rate. When she saw 
it sold, she, as was suspected, fired the 
house, which was burnt down to the ground 
within two months after I had sold it. 

In this year my brother Harrison married 
the eldest daughter of the Lord Viscount 
Grandison. I let in this year a lease of 
eleven years of Fanton Hall, in Essex, to 
Jonathan Wier, which I held of the Bishop- 
rick of London : this lease was bought the first 
year the King came home, of Doctor Shel- 
don, then Bishop of London, who was ex- 
ceeding kind to us, and sold it for half the 
worth, which I will ever acknowledge with 
thankfulness. 

My dear father departed this hfe, upon 
the ^2Sth of September, 1670, being above 
eighty years of age, in perfect understand- 



30(j MEMOIRS OF 

ing, God be praised I He left five hundred 
pounds to every one of my four daughters ; 
and gave me three thousand pounds for a part 
of the manor of Scallshow, near Lynn, in 
Norfolk, but the year before he died, to 
make my sister Harrison a jointure. The 
11th I christened the eldest daughter of my 
brother Harrison, with Lord Grandison, 
and Sir Edmund Turner. 

The death of my father made so great an 
impression on me, that with the grief, I was 
sick half a year almost to death; but through 
God's mercy, and the care of Doctor Jasper 
Needham, a most worthy and learned physi- 
cian, I recovered ; and as soon as I was able 
to think of business, I bought » ground in 
St. Mary's Chapel, in Ware Church, of the 
Bishop of London, and there made a vault 
for my husband's body, which I had there 
laid by most of the same persons that laid 
him before in my father's vault, in Hertford 



LADY FANSHAWE. 307 

Church deposited, until I could make this 
vault and monument, which cost me two 
hundred pounds ; and here, if God pleases, I 
intend to lie myself. 

He had the good fortune to be the first 
chosen, and the first returned member of the 
Commons' House of Parliament, in England, 
after the King came home; and this cost 
him no more than a letter of thanks, and two 
brace of bucks, and twenty broad pieces of 
gold to buy them wine. 

Upon St. Stephen's day the King shut 
the ***** 



X 2 



EXTRACTS 



FROM THE 



CORRESPONDENCE 



OF 



SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE, 

ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE MEMOIR. 



The Letters from which part of the following Ex- 
tracts have been taken, were printed in 1701, under the 
title of " Original Letters of his Excellency Sir Richard 
Fanshawe, during his Embassies in Spain and Portugal ; 
which, together with divers Letters and Answers from 
the Chief Ministers of State of England, Spain, and 
Portugal, contain the whole negociations of the treaty of 
Peace between those three Crowns," 8vo. pp. 510. 

The remainder are now printed, for the first time, 
from the rough copies of the originals, or the originals 
themselves, preserved in the Harleian MS. 7010, in the 
British Museum. 

Although these Extracts were chiefly made with the 
view of illustrating the statements in the Memoir, nearly 
every passage has been copied from the Correspondence 
which is of the slightest general interest, unconnected 
with political affairs. 



3J2 CORRESPONDENCE OF 

TO MR. SECRETARY RENNET. 

[See MemoirSj p. 182.] 

On Board his Majesty's Admiral, entering the Bay 
of Cadiz, Wednesday about noon, 24th of Fe- 
bruary, 1669, English style. 

" By former advertisements, I presume his Majesty, from 
you, hath understood how, after sharp storms and cross 
winds, with the first favourable breath we adventured to put 
to sea a third time, and out of Torbay the second, upon 
Monday the 15th instant, at nine of the clock at night ; from 
whence, in so few days, as appears by computation, to the 
time of the date hereof, and with the most auspicious weather 
that could be imagined, we were all arrived thus far, in per- 
fect health and safety ; where perceiving some sailors steering 
towards us, which we took to be English, and homewards 
bound, I thought it my duty, en duda, to prepare hastily, thus 
much only, against we speak with them in passage ; which 
may suffice at present, from him who knows no more as yet." 
Original Letters of Sir Richard Fanshaxve^ p. 30. 



TO MR. SECRETARY RENNET. 

[See Memoirs, p. 183—189.] 

\'j . 

March 10, 1664. 



Cadiz, ^^5r}>l'^y29,i663. 



*' My last of the 29th of February, English style, (which 
yet cannot go sooner than this, having not met with the pre- 
sent opportunity of conveyance I then expected,) advertised 
your honour we were just then entering this bay, after a 
brief and very fair passage from Torbay. 



SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE. 313 

The same evening we came to anchor at some distance 
from this city, intending, God willing, the next day, 6th 
instant, to come on shore ; but a strong Levant rising, not 
only that was impossible, but even for any to come to me 
from the land. 

The next morning, 7th, our ships weighing, made a hard 
shift to get into the port, and I from thence a harder to land 
in boats. The Duke of Medina Celi, in the interim, having 
complimented me aboard, by a Caballero de Habito, with a 
letter from Port S. Mary, and in person from this city the 
deputed governor of this town, Don Diego de Ibarra, both 
of them, as by a general order from his Catholic Majesty, 
which they had had some weeks by them in case of my 
arrival here, in virtue whereof somewhat more than ordi- 
nary salutes were given by this city to his Majesty's Am- 
bassador and fleet ; also a house ready furnished for me, 
whereunto I was very honourably conducted, with appear- 
ance of universal joy, and there visited the same day by the 
Duke of Albuquerque, the Cabildo, and all the nobles and 
principal gentlemen here residing. My table, the governor 
signified, was to be at my own finding, yet that I must not 
refuse to accept of the first meal from him ; of the former 
1 was very glad, as enjoying thereby a liberty which I pre- 
ferred to any delicacies whatsoever upon free cost ; the latter, 
I was not at all nice to receive for once. But I had not been 
three hours on shore, when an Extraordinary arrived from 
Madrid, with more particular orders than formerly from his 
Catholic Majesty, importing, that our Master's fleet, when 
arrived, and this Ambassador, should be presaluted from 
the city, in a manner unexampled to others, and which should 
not be drawn into example hereafter. Moreover, and this 
so likewise, that I and all my company must be totally de- 
frayed, both here and all the way up to Madrid, upon his 



314 CORRESPONDENCE OF 

Catholic Majesty's account ; with several other circumstances 
of particular esteem for our Royal Master above all the 
world besides. The substance of all hath been related to 
me, and the effects declare it ; but a copy of the order itself 
I have not as yet been able to obtain though desired, it being 
the style not to communicate it without leave from above, 
and out of the Secretary of State, else I should have thought 
it my duty to remit it unto his Majesty from hence, and shall 
from thence if I get it. 

The first night the keys of the city were brought to me 
in a great silver basin, by the governor, which, after several 
refusals^ I took and put into the right hands ; then the 
governor forced me to give him the word, which, after like 
refusals, I did, and was Viva el Rey Catolico, 

At supper, he and his Lady would bear me and my wife 
company, which I accepting as a great favour, told him my 
wife should eat with her Ladyship, retired from the men, 
after the Spanish fashion, it being more than sufficient, they 
would not think strange, we used the innocent freedom of our 
own when we were among ourselves. But by no means, 
that he would not suffer ; and to keep us the more in coun- 
tenance, alleged this manner of eating to be now the custom 
of many of the greatest families of Spain, and had been from 
all antiquity to this day of the majestical House of Alva ; the 
generosity whereof, particularly in the person of the present 
duke, he took this occasion to celebrate very highly. So, in 
fine, he had his will of me in this particular. 

" As the Duke of Albuquerque, newly-created Generalis- 
simo of the Ocean, and very shortly going to enjoy that high 
puesto at his ease in the Court, where he is likewise Gentil- 
hombre de la Camara — had done to me before, so yesterday 
his Duchess and their daughter, (married to his own brother, 
to keep up the name, for want of issue male) both vastly 



SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE. 315 

rich in jewels, as lately returned from the viceroyship of 
Mexico, so full as to refuse that of Peru, in consequence of 
the other, began an obliging visit of many hours to my wife ; 
both of the above-named Dukes and Duchess, whether by 
letter and message, as the Duke of Medina, or in person, as 
the other, treating us both to a full equality in all respects. 

I had forgot to specify, as I may have done several other 
remarkable points of respect to his Majesty's Ambassador, 
how one part of this King's last order was, that for more 
honour and security, a guard of soldiers, with a captain of it, 
should be night and day in my house ; which is practised 
where I now am, and, as I understood it, is to be in like 
manner in all towns of note ; a person of quality, by the same 
royal command, conducting me from one to another. 

All this ceremony^ I hope, is not instead of substance ; for 
then it would prove very tedious and irksome to me indeed ; 
but an earnest and prognostic of it^ which time will try when 
I come to treat." Ibid, p. 31 . 



TO MR. SECRETARY RENNET. 

[See MemoirSjP. 193— 204.] 

C!«„il1^ March, 93, 1663, 
Seville, -^ April, 166 4, 

*' Pursuing my journal from the date of my last to you 
from Cadiz, ill'J'iXTek , you may be pleased to understand 
that, March I, the old Governor, D. Ant. Pimentel, returned 
thither, surprising me with a visit in my house before he 



316 CORIIESPONDENCE OF 

would enter into his own, or had any notice of his landing ; 
the cause of his suspension having been only that which I 
then signified, and as powerfully removed at Court by a 
letter from the Duke de Medina Celi to his Catholic Ma- 
jesty in his defence, as it seemed to have been laid on with 
a very good will by the Duke of Albuquerque ; the letter I 
have seen, wanting neither rhetoric, logic, nor assurance. 

iV Of the same. The said Don Antonio treated me and all 
my company with splendour and magnificence, borrowing us 
for that dinner from the King's entertainment. 

The j^. Himself in person accompanied me to St. Mary Port, 
my first step towards Madrid, and had been my first landing- 
place, as nearest and of most convenience, if it had not been 
signified to me by message, that I must not wave Cadiz, 
where all things were orderly prepared for my reception, 
from whence also I pressed to have removed sooner ; but 
that the Duke of Medina intimated his desire of the contrary, 
as not till then so well prepared for my entertainment as his 
Excellency intended to be ; and in particular, because a rich 
gondola, built purposely, said they, for the wafting over of 
Princes, had some days' work to do about it, before it could 
be fitted for my transportation. 

Arrived therein at Port, the Duke, with all his family and 
vassals, that city being his patrimony, met me at the landing- 
place, v/hence, with coaches, and vollies of shot by many 
troops, not upon the King's pay but his own, for so his Ex- 
cellency then told me, he conducted me to a very fair house, 
prepared by his care, and furnished with the richest of what 
he had for his own palace : moreover, under his Excellency's 
proper inspection against ray coming from Cadiz, whence, 
having been there revisited at parting by the Duke of Albu- 
querque, and all other who had visited me at my arrival, I 



SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE. 317 

was dismissed with great and small shot from the town, and 
in like manner saluted in my passage by the Spanish Armada, 
and all other ships in the bay, as well Spanish as strangers, 
Van Tromp riding there at the same time with his Squa- 
dron. The rest of my entertainment at Port was propor- 
tionable to the beginning, and there also the Duke of Medina 
gave me one treat at his own palace. The civilities to me 
of the Marquis of Bayona, Gentleman of the Galleys of 
Spain, the constant station thereof is there, and of his lady 
to my wife, inheritrix of the Marquisate of St. Cruz, and so 
of a Grandeeship, noted likewise for eminent virtue and 
education at Court, came nothing behind ; but these two great 
men cannot set their horses together. 

On Monday, March ij, accompanied out of the city of 
Port by the Duke of Medina, Don Antonio de Pimentel, 
who had never left me till then, being one, and the Marquis of 
Bayona, with his Lady, planting his coach upon the way-side, 
beyond the place where the Duke took leave. I came that 
night to Xerez de la Frontera; met and welcomed before our 
approaching to the city by the magistrates thereof and 
principal gentlemen, that is all, with many troops of soldiers, 
and shoals of common people. The next day, treated in the 
interim, and then dismissed as before at the other two places, 
I arrived and lodged at Lebria. 

The next at Utrera ; met about a league short, by order of 
the Conde de Molina, Assistente de Sevilla, with a troop of 
horse, and by Don Lope de Mendoco, Alguazil, mayor of the 
city, as Teniente del Duque de Alcala^, proprietor by inherit- 
ance of that office, the said Don Lope being, by the same 
order, to conduct me as far as Cordova. 

The next day, g of March, accompanied with the same 
troop and conductor, we set forth for Seville ; but this small 
stream soon lost itself, when, about the distance before nkmed 



318 CORRESPONDENCE OF 

it fell into a torrent of people of all sorts and degrees, both 
military and civil, which, together with the Conde Assistente, 
rushed out to receive and conduct me to the King's palace, 
or Alcacera, which accordingly was done. Churches, streets, 
inhabitants, river, passes, much noted at all times, setting 
now upon this occasion the best side outward to express a 
pride in their joy of a hoped perfect correspondence with 
England. 

Here, at my arrival, I found lying for me, in the hand of a 
servant of the Duke of Medina de las Torres, a letter from 
his Excellency, of high welcome to Spain, a\id no less re- 
spect. Here, since my arrival, besides a perpetual court of 
company and entertainments of the best above -stairs, and 
ranks of soldiers, with multitudes of others below, upon my ac- 
count, in this famous palace of the King, where I am lodging 
in his Majesty's own bedchamber, as royally furnished as 
when himself was in it, visits I have received in form from 
their Excellency the City, by their Representatives ; from their 
Senoria, the Audiencia ; by their Regente, from their Senoria ; 
the Contratacion House, by their Presidente ; and from his 
Illustrissima the Archbishop, being at present sick, by 
message ; all which I have repaid respectively ; and to- 
morrow, God willing, set forth towards Cordova ; perceiving 
beforehand that my salida will be proportionable to my 
entrada. The conclusion I make of the whole is, ' thus shall 
it be done to the man whom the King our Master is pleased 
to honour,' and the King of Spain, for his Majesty's sake, as 
far as outward ceremony can testify it. Well, hoping that 
neither his Majesty, nor any other at home, will apprehend 
I take ought of this as done to my person^ or for any thing 
of intrinsic value supposed to be in me, but merely as I 
bear my Master's image and superscription ; his Majesty's 
prerogative shining the more therein, by how much the 



SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE. 319 

metal on which he is stamped hath less of value in itself. 
Not a compliment, which will be always a saucy thing, as well 
as impertinent, with a man's prince ; but a sober and natural 
inference, at least so understood by such as could wish it 
were otherwise." Ibid, p. SQ. 



TO Mil. SECRETARY BENNET. 

[See Memoirs, p. 205—207-] 

Cordova, 1664. 

** My last journal — such I call all letters of mine as relate 
only to my motions towards Madrid — with something of the 
splendid and ceremonious entertainment of his Majesty's 
Ambassador, from place to place, more or less as the places 
themselves are more or less eminent and plentiful, was 

, , r^ .,, 23 Martii, 1G63 , ^ , _ 

dated at Seville^ aAprms, i684 > and figured /. 

The next day, according to the account I then made, I 
departed from Seville, accompanied out of the city about a 
mile by the Conde Assistente, and divers others of the nobi- 
lity and gentry of that place, and was guarded by foot 
soldiers quite through the city, with colours displayed, and 
abased as I passed by, and muskets discharged; a com- 
pany of foot having been upon my guard all the while I 
stayed there, as in all other places of note. 

That night I came to Carmona, a city formerly considerable 
for the lofty situation, strong, and pleasant palace there of 
the Kings of Castile, and were the last which held out for 



320 COllllESPONDENCE OF 

Don Pedro the Cruel ; both the one and the other now 
ruinous enough. About half a league short, thereof, I was met 
by the magistrates and gentry of the place, and by them con- 
ducted to my lodging ; having placed a company of foot at the 
entrance into the town, who discharged their muskets, &c. 

From Carmona, the next day, to Fuentes ; a very plea- 
sant and healthful small town, from whence the Marquis, 
uncle to the now Duke Medina Sidonia, had his title. 
From Fuentes, the next day, to Ecica ; which, in respect 
of the great heats thereof at some times, is called ' the Frying- 
pan of Andaluzia,' yet we, upon the 5th of April, their style, 
found it cold enough. I was there very civilly and splendidly 
lodged and entertained for two days; being, indeed, an extra- 
ordinary place. Our company and cattle harassed ; and fore- 
seeing we must make a halt at Cordova till the Holy Week, 
now begun, were past, and therefore to no purpose to hurry 
thither. 

From Ecica, ^^^^ f ^'!? ^, I arrived at Cordova, where now I 

' 7th April ' ' 

am : where also my reception without this most ancient and 
famous city, by the Correjidor and gentry thereof, the flower 
of all Spain for extraction and civility, was, and our lodging 
and treatment of all sorts within is, and is like to be, do what 
we can, and the Lent season too, to avoid and qualified it, such 
as will require a letter apart, and more lines therein, to ab- 
breviate it only than the feasting and pastimes themselves will 
probably allow me leisure for whilst I am here ; and therefore 
I must refer that to another occasion." Ibid, p. 44. 



SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE. 321 

TO MR. SECRETARY RENNET. 

[See Memoirs, p. 211—307.] 

Ballecas, one league from Madrid, 7th May, 1664, slilo loci. 

" My last from Cordova, 29th of March, N. S. 7th of April, 
carried on the journal of my great reception and entertain- 
ment in my way up to Madrid, to the day of the date thereof. 

What was afterwards in the same city, whilst I remained 
there, which was until Tuesday in Easter week — because 
those gentlemen would needs make the King of England's 
Ambassador a fiesta of cannas upon the Monday, at the 
rate of taking up their horses from Verde, on purpose for it ; 
and since, in all other places proportionably, particularly in 
Toledo, where there was another fiesta of bulls given, was 
every way rather exceeding than inferior to any thing that 
was elsewhere before, until my safe arrival in this very place, 
which I reckon my journey's end ; and by earnest suit to 
this Court from Seville, did obtain it might be so esteemed by 
them ; leaving me here to my own expense and disposal, 
although I have as yet no house provided for me in Madrid ; 
notwithstanding all diligence towards it by the Aposen- 
tadores there, upon the King's special command, and also by 
such private persons as I myself have employed not to stick 
at any just rate for a good one, upon my particular account, 
with advance of a year's rent in plata doble, and so to be 
continued, as long as the house should be used by me, upon 
merchant security : such a dearth there is really of accom- 
modations of this nature for the present, and tor a long time 
hath been ; yet there want not descants, that there is some 
great mystery of state in the matter, which doubtless will 
fly as far as Paris, if not reach London, 

Y 



322 CORRESPONDENCE OF 

Postscript. — Since my arrival in this village, and that ray 
present want of a house in Madrid is more murmured at there 
than needsj considering the King is absent ; and moreover, 
though I am much straitened in matter of lodgings, yet that 
I have a very large and pleasant garden thereunto belonging, 
to expatiate and refresh myself and wearied family in, I 
received a message from Baron Battevil to this effect, besides 
general tenders of all manner of service which is in his power ; 
that he is at present (as in truth he is) sick, or else would have 
waited upon me himself in person ; but that he will, with all 
his heart quit his house to me — which I am told is a very fine 
one, as he hath made it, with chargeable additions of his own, 
in the midst of the Calle de Alcala, with a fair garden to it, 
and that it is no compliment at all. This I have thought 
reasonable to advertise in England, though not to accept." — 
Ibid, p. 63—66. 



FROM THE DUKE OF MEDINA DE LAS TORRES, 
TO SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE. 

Madrid, 27th of May, 1664. 

" The Bull-feast will be on Thursday next ; and by reason 
that your Excellency seems desirous to be a spectator incog- 
nito, I have taken care to procure you a shady balcony in the 
first story. 1 have likewise ordered a window to be secured 
for your Excellency's retinue. If there be anything more 
wherein I can serve your Excellency, I hope you will freely 
command it, as I shall be always forward to serve you. God 



SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE. 323 

keep your Excellency, and grant you the long life I desire." — 
Ibid, p. 86. 



TO MR. SECRETARY RENNET. 



Ballecas, i? May, 1664. 



'*^ The Duke of Avero had recovered, by final sentence, the 
17th of May, the two dukedoms of Maqueda and Najara. 
Maqueda he hath ; for Najara hath not yet sued, but keeps 
it in the decks : then Maqueda is a great deal better worth 
than I thought, valued by some at sixty thousand ducats per 
annum, at forty thousand generally ; and moreover his sister, 
(as a domestic, who you know, of that family, tells me,) as a 
consequent of the late sentence, will recover for or towards 
her dowry, a deposited arrear of between three or four 
hundred thousand ducats. She was lately, in all appearance, 
very near marriage with the heir of the Conde de Oropesa ; 
but quite broke off before this sentence upon point of alimony, 
and liberty of rewarding her own attendants out of her own 
estate, in case of future dissension. I am particular in the 
domestic concernments of this family when they come in 
my way, though the passages relate nothing of interest of 
state, in regard to that esteem of their persons, which his 
Majesty's instruction to me* on that behalf doth express, 
and knowing yourself to be particularly an honourer of 
them. 

* The following passage occurs in Sir Richard's instructions t " You 
shall visit, in our name, the Duke of Aveiro and his sister, assuring them 
of our friendship and particular concernments for their persons, for the 

Y 2 



324 CORRESPONDENCE OF 

Upon the 22nd current, Ascension-day at night,* after a play 
in the palace, upon a slight occasion of snappish words, 
unless there were something of old grudge or rivalship in 
the case, the Marquis of Albersan, challenging Don Domingo 
Gusman, and he fought under the palace, near the Marquis 
de Castel Roderigo's house in the Florida, where Don Do- 
mingo gave the Marquis that whereof he died. The next 
morning they that knew the Marquis to be so near and dear 
to the Conde de Castrillo as he was, and knew Don Do- 
mingo to be the Duke of St. Lucar's son ; knowing withal 
how well that Conde and Duke do love one another, and how 
they do both divide the Spanish world between them in 
power, will conclude this private accident hath an influence 
upon the public ; indeed so great a One, as hath seemed for 
some days past to make a vacation in Court, that I may not 
call it an inter-reign, or the dividing of a kingdom against 
itself. 

For since, and upon, this accident, all seems of a light 
flame between these duumviri, to so high a degree, that each 
crossing whatsoever the other promotes, the most of others 
of, quality take sides, and such as appear neuters with the 
monarchy a monopoly in either of their hands ; weeping 
over the graves of the Conde, Duque, and Don Luis de 
Haro, because they were absolute and sole favourites in 
their generations ; attributing to this very cause the seeming 
disproportion, if not contradiction, between my reception in, 

name and royal blood of which they are descended, and promising them 
all effects of it in our power, especially if the agreement between the two 
Crowns give us an opportunity to have any part in the restitution of 
their estates, with all other good offices, which shall happen to be in our 
power." — Ibid. p. 17' 

* In 1664 Ascension-day fell on the nineteenth of May. 



SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE. 3'25 

and conduction from, Cadiz, hitherto, and now my long de- 
murage so near the Court, for want of a house in it, and 
prophecying already that this animosity and emulation will 
gangrene into the substance, as well as accidents, of my 
embassy. 

I do not here pretend to paint unto his Majesty the state of 
Spain, but the populace of it; asking more time^ by a great 
number of years, to understand the former, though but in a 
competent measure, than I hope his Majesty will give me ; 
and if his Majesty would, God will not. I have learned by 
the yet invincible ignorance of some Foreign Ambassadors 
to England, (an open-breasted country ! — how apt they are 
to mistake,) who, (begging the question, in the first place, of 
their own personal abilities,) can never be convinced that 
Mas Vee el loco en su casa, que el Cuerdo en la agena. — Whilst 
I am writing, I am called to entertain the Count de Marcin* 
who is upon the way from Madrid to find me out in this 
obscurity, contrary to the style of Spain, but suitable to the 
freedom of a soldier, and of a subject of his Majesty, as to his 
most noble Sovereignty of the Garter." — Ibid, p. 90. 

* John Gaspar Ferdinand de JMarcin, Count de Graville, Marquis de 
Claremont d'Antraque, &c. Captain-General of the Spanish Service, was 
Lieutenant- General of Charles the Second's forces by sea and land, and 
was elected a Knight of the Garter in 1658. 



326 correspotndenck of 

TO HIS EXCELLENCY DENZELL LOED HOLLES, 

AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY IN THE COURT OF FRANCE. 
FOR HIS MAJESTY'S SPECIAL SERVICE. 

[See Memoirs, pp. 212, 213.] 

Madrid, June 2-5', 1664. 
"My Lord, 

After a long progress from Cadiz to Ballecas, a village one 
league distant from this Court, and almost as long a paren- 
thesis there — which the French Court will say was no elegant 
piece of oratory ; nor the middle, at all proportionable to 
the beginning with me, whatever the end may prove — upon 
the 8th instant I arrived happily at my journey's end howso- 
ever ; where, as speedily then as myself could possibly in 
any measure be ready for it, namely, upon the 18th, both 
stilo loci, I received my public audience of entrada at the 
King's palace, in the same form, neither more or less, as my 
predecessors have ever done ; and only two days having since 
intervened, as by the account doth appear, within two or three 
more from the date of this, the King removing to-day unto 
the Buen Retiro, I do expect my first private audience. 

Being thus fixed, after long running, in the centre of my 
negotiation, I do presume to beg from your Excellency, and 
hereby to begin on my part, a mutual correspondence; first, 
in order to the service of our Royal master, whereunto we are 
both obliged in common; secondly, to that of your Excel- 
lency, whereunto myself in particular. 

To begin with what concerns my embassy, being so much 
a fresh man as your Excellency sees I am in this Court, 



SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE. 327 

visible it is by what proceeds, I can as yet have nothing 
to descant or touch upon, but matter of ceremony only from 
and towards me, divisible into two considerations ; the first, in 
reference to the palace, of which I have already said the 
same hath been, as from, and to, other Ambassadors, in all 
this and all other ages ; the second, in reference to the pre- 
sent concurring Ambassadors, and other public ministers of 
this Court ; and now, upon this branch 1 shall, with your Ex- 
cellency's patience, if I may presume so much, dilate noyself 
so far as to the heads only of what hath past, in fact, as fol- 
loweth. 

I need not tell your Excellency, because it differs not from 
the custom of all or most Courts, until abuses thereof enforced 
an alteration in some, that in this, always heretofore, Ambas- 
sadors and other Foreign Ministers upon the place, did send 
their families to accompany new comers to their first public 
audience, and this went round. Therefore, accordingly, I 
was now, in my turn, to expect this function towards me, as I 
did. The Master of the Ceremonies thereupon, who is a man 
new in his place, advertised me in writing, that this, since 
Henry the Eighth's time, was never practised to, nor by, 
Ambassadors of England. Finding this matter of fact utterly 
mistaken, I replied. Soon after he brought me a message 
from the King, that I should not expect this ceremony ; but 
still, upon the same misgrounded supposition, therefore unto 
this likewise I replied. Finally, his Majesty, having weighed 
my last reply, by the Secretary of State for the North, Don 
Blasco de Loyola, coming to my house the evening before 
my audience, signified to me, that for certain reasons, what- 
soever was heretofore in practice of that kind, it must thence- 
forward be no more, from or towards English, or any 
Ambassador whatsoever in this Court, the which being his 



328 CORRESPONDENCE OF 

Majesty's own order, in his own kingdom, and equally indif- 
ferent to all; my answer to the Secretary was, — That, for the 
present, I saw no further cause of reply, but would and did 
submit thereunto. 

The like signification was at the same time sent to all other 
Ambassadors and foreign Ministers here that they would not 
send, the which, in compliance therewith, they forbear, all 
but the French, who upon the very morning, the hour of my 
audience approaching, sent four of his gentlemen, with one of 
his coaches, to accompany me. The Marquis de Malpica, 
major-domo of the week^ and Captain of the German guard, 
in behalf of the Marquis of Salinas, proprietor thereof, hap- 
pening to be my conductor, with his guard, did a little ex- 
postulate with those gentlemen, why they came contrary to 
his Majesty's order; who replied, their Lord did receive no 
orders but from his own master, who had sent him very 
strict ones to perform, I think he said this office in par- 
ticular, at least, in general, all offices of amity to the Am- 
bassador of the King of England, his Christian Majesty's 
most dear brother and ally. In fine, accompany me they 
did, and very civilly comported themselves, both unto the 
palace, which was customary, but now forbid, and home 
again ; which was never done before, by the family of any 
Ambassador, to any other whatsoever in this Court. They 
did insist that their Ambassador's coach should precede 
my second coach, which was not denied them, being a 
civil expedient practised in all or most other courts ; the 
ordinary style of this, and practised, by these individual 
French themselves towards public ministers of the lowest 
rank, as they avowed to me the same morning, in the pre- 
sence both of the Marquis and the Master of Ceremonies, 
and expressly a majori, that whenever I should send in the 



SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE. 329 

like case to accompany a new comer from France, the same 
measure would never be scrupled towards me. 

For this obliging piece of gallantry to the King of Eng- 
land's Ambassador, endeared by the singularity, by the oppo- 
sition of the Spanish Court, and by the supererogation of his 
followers extending it in part beyond the example of others, 
when the same was in custom, I wrote my thanks yesterday 
unto his Excellency, who answered, that if he had not had 
the orders of the King his master to pay me the respects he 
did, it would have sufficed for obliging him thereunto, to 
know that the King of England's Mother is his Master's 
Aunt. My Lord, there are in this Court, who seem of opinion, 
that this excess of courtesy from the French Ambassador, is 
not sound within^, looking one way and rowing another ; 
which, say they, will shortly appear. For my own part, I 
am quite of another mind ; and hitherto I am sure, in farther 
demonstrations of kindness and civility, he followeth suit 
with the forwardest, if in that he was the single unfoUowed 
precedent. I am, my Lord, your Excellency's most faithful, 
and ever most obedient Servant^ 

Richard Fanshawe." — Ibid, p. 106. 



TO MR. SECRETARY BENNET. 

[See Memoirs, p. 213 and p. 218.] 
Madrid, Wednesday, the 15th June, 1664, English Style. 

"I write this, being just now returned from my first pri- 
vate audience of his Catholic Majesty, which was given me 
in the Buen Retiro, and therein did deliver myself in the 



330 CORRESrOKDENCE OF 

sense of my instructions and directions ; not in many words, 
because the King's weak state of body will not allow it ; but 
with much plainness and humble freedom, concerning the 
languishing and desperate condition in which the peace and 
commerce between the Crowns and nations have long lain 
gasping, and expecting an utter dissolution, by frequent 
violations of articles in several manners." — Ihid. p. 113. 

Madrid, Wednesday, 25th June, 1664. 

" In the first place, having procured his Catholic Majesty to be 
prepared to expect it, I delivered myself in English, and 
in the express words of my instructions, only changing the 
person, as followeth, viz. 

' The most Serene King of Great Britain, my Master, 
hath charged me, after kissing your Majesty's feet with due 
reverence, to represent unto your Catholic Majesty, that 
some unhappy accidents intervening, have occasioned his not 
performing this part towards your Majesty sooner, in return 
of those congratulatory embassies which your most Serene 
Majesty sent unto him immediately upon his late happy 
restoration to his kingdoms. His most Serene Majesty com- 
manded me to add farther, that neither those accidents, nor 
any other, of what nature soever, have been, or can be able, 
to lessen his esteem of your royal person and friendship, or 
the obligations he had to your most Serene Majesty in the 
time of his adversity ; and that therefore your Majesty may 
assure yourself, that his Majesty will be ready in all times to 
make proportionable returns.' 

With this, and the delivering to his Catholic Majesty, first 
my Latin credential, then the respects of the whole Royal 
Family of England, in general words, and particularly a 
letter from his Royal Highness ; also, his Majesty's leave 



SIR RICHARD F ANSI! AWE. 331 

first asked, presenting my comrades one after another, to do 
their obeisance, I made my retreat in the accustomed manner. 

The like respectively, immediately after, in the Queen's 
side, to her Majesty, unto whom 1 presented his Majesty's 
letter, and afterwards two others from their Royal Highnesses; 
then a compliment to the Empress, so treated as to title, but 
ranked as to place, because not yet espoused, beneath the 
Queen her mother, and would have been also, had his 
Highness been there present, as was intended, but that it 
proved either his sleeping or eating hour, beneath her brother 
the Prince; all which seemed very graciously accepted; 
and here no English at all was spoken. Lastly, a dumb 
show of salute, as you know the custom to be, after the 
Queen and Empress, to every particular dame ; and in this 
close of this ceremony, as well towards their Majesties as the 
ladies, my comrades had all of them leave to follow me. 

The evening, and near that time it was before we had 
gotten home and eaten our breakfast, was wholly spent by 
me in expected visits to the Duke of Medina de las Torres, 
and the rest of the Council, the President of Castile (quatenus) 
such only excepted by me, as likewise by all other Ambas- 
sadors of the first class used to be. This is the reason why, for 
haste, having only a piece of the night for my own before 
the post departs, I write to you bare matter of fact in this 
misshapen way hitherto ; and in another point, perhaps of 
more import in the consequence than all the rest, I must be 
forced, for the same reason, to go yet less, only touching 
thereupon very briefly for the present. 

You well know a custom of this Court, and 1 believe of 
most others likewise, till abuses thereof enforced an altera- 
tion in some, that Ambassadors and other Foreign Ministers 
upon the place, send their families to accompany any new 



332 CORRESPONDENCE OF 

comers to their first public audience ; and this went round. 
Accordingly, I was now to expect this function towards 
me, as I did. 

[Sir Richard then repeats precisely what he stated in his 
Letter to Lord Holies.— *See pages 327, 328.] 

In fine, accompany me they did, and very civilly comported 
themselves, both unto the palace, which was customary, but 
now forbid ; but home again, which was never done before 
by the family of any Ambassador, to any other whatsoever in 
this Court. So that hitherto, as to this action, they can have 
nothing to boast of, but an excess of civility towards the 
crown of England, or the person of our Royal Master. In 
return whereunto, his Majesty, in my humble opinion, will 
think fit to command me, or whosoever shall succeed me, to 
perform the same office towards the successor of this French 
Ambassador. As to both points, which make it worthy of 
peculiar estimation, that is to say, with an exception in this 
one particular only, though his Catholic Majesty should con- 
tinue his present general rule to the contrary ; and although 
also, even whilst his compliment was generally practised, it 
was not by any extended so far as to accompany any Ambas- 
sador back to his house ; and this the rather, if it shall be 
found that the French Ambassador, conforming hereafter to 
the general rule^ as to all others, shall have made the English 
Ambassador his single exception in the case. The experi- 
ment will now soon be made, a new Venetian Ambassador 
being daily expected here ; though possibly he may not 
have his audience so very soon after, but that, in the interim, 
I may, upon this clear, though brief, stating of all actions 
and circumstances to me, as yet appearing above ground 
in this matter, receive his Majesty's particular directions and 
cautions how to carry myself in all events, the which I am 



SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE. 333 

exceedingly desirous of; and, in default thereof, will, with all 
fidelity, proceed and work according to the best of my under- 
standing. 

If it be not already clear enough from the premises, you 
may be pleased to take notice, that no one stranger went with 
me but those French in the Ambassador's coach, which, 
without any least dispute whatsoever, did give place to my 
principal coach, as mine did to that which brought the Mar- 
quis, being the King's proper coach, a thing not formerly 
usual upon these occasions." — Ibid. p. 117. 



SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE TO THE FRENCH 
AMBASSADOR. 

" I humbly thank your Excellency for the civility you showed 
to the King my Master, and the honour you did me, in send- 
ing your coach and domestics to accompany my entry ; and 
whereof I retain so lively a sense, that I am just going to ac- 
quaint my Master with it, not doubting in the least but it will 
meet with that esteem from him which your Excellency so 
highly deserves. My instructions, indeed, were to observe a 
more than ordinary intimacy and amity with your Excellency 
at this Court, which I shall always continue to do, and where- 
by I imagine we may not a little contribute towards the good 
and welfare of both kingdoms. I kiss your Excellency's 
hands, and wish you a long and prosperous life, being. 

My Lord, 
Your Excellency's most obliged and most humble Servant, 

Richard Fanshawe." — Ibid. p. 123. 



334 CORRESPONDENCE OF 



TO MK. SECRETARY RENNET. 

Madrid, 2 July, 1664, Slilo Loci. 

" The herewith inclosed papers do contain ir.y complaint 
of a studied neglect put hy a Venetian Ambassador, whom I 
found in this Court ready to depart the same within a short 
time, upon the Ambassador of the King of England, in not 
giving me a visit either of welcome or farewell, as the custom 
of this and all other Courts do require in the hke case; the 
which I have thought it my precise duty to represent to the 
King our master, as knowing how highly the like neglect in 
the Court of England, by a Venetian Ambassador also, with 
others, towards an Ambassador, but of a Duke of Savoy, was 
resented ; his then Majesty himself, in his Princely judgment, 
condemning the omission, as will here appear in the first 
place. 

And least this Venetian Ambassador should justify himself 
in this towards me, as pretending to be aggrieved by me, be- 
cause I am entitled, by his Catholic Majesty to the house of 
the Seven Chimeneas,* which he was possessed of, and endea- 
voured to entail the same upon his successor, both against the 
decree of his Majesty and the consent of the owner, I having 
both, I do likewise herewith, in the following papers, make it 
clearly appear, that I did neither think of that individual 
house, till it was already embargoed for me, nor pursue it 
afterwards, as most men but myself would have done, being 
so destitute of conveniences of dwelling as I then was, and 
yet am, merely out of a respect I bear to the character of an 
Ambassador. So that, even in this particular, which is all the 

* SeeMEMOiRS, p. 221. 



SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE. 335 

colour he can have for excuse of not visiting, I have just 
cause of a second complaint, but this second I totally let 



The other being much taken notice of by this Court, as a 
matter of a more public nature, I humbly submit it to his 
Majesty's consideration, whether, in his Royal wisdom, he 
may not think fit to expostulate it with the Senate of Venice ; 
in the mean time, his successor being arrived, I intend to send 
just such a message to him as liis predecessor did to me ; . but 
have already declared, with the seeming approbation of all, 
that I will never give to, nor receive a visit from, this, or any 
Venetian Ambassador whatsoever, that shall be in this Court 
while I remain here, unless the King my Master, being ap- 
plied to by the Republic, shall command it." — Ibid. p. 129. 



TO MR. SECRETARY RENNET. 

Madrid, Thursday, 28th July, 1664, English Style. 

^' You proceed expressing your gladness to hear I was 
housed in Madrid, upon w^hich, after my humble thanks for 
the favour, 1 must needs observe the expression was very 
happy, if you rightly understand my case, and happier if you 
understand it not. Housed I have been here, that is, under a 
roof, these two months, making a shift with an upper quarter ; 
such a one, indeed, as the Duke of St. German contained him- 
self and family in ; but a house I never had till this morning, 
then I had delivered into my possession the Casa de las siete 
Chimeneas. 

This house was defended, for the space of time I have 
mentioned, against the King of Spain, and all his Aposenta- 



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dores, by two Venetian Ambassadors successively ; the first 
was really leaving it without any thought, as I am assured, 
of asking it for his successor ; then the Duke of Medina de 
las Torres, when I never dreamed of it, and was in pursuit of 
another, procured it to be embargoed for me in reversion ; 
this the Venetian apprehends an affront to him and his Re- 
public ; and whiles off the time of his stay here, to his great 
inconvenience, in respect of the advancing heats and other- 
wise, till he had got his successor up to him, marching fu- 
riously, who, contrary to the King and Council's expectation 
and express decree, doth amanecer in the Seven Chimeneas, 
fortifying himself there with his privilege of Ambassador, 
and makes it point of reputation so to do (patriaeq. suaeq.) ; 
in this security his predecessor leaves him about six weeks 
since, not to be removed with all the King and the Duke have 
been able to do, without imposition of hands, till the last 
night. 

I dare confidently say nothing hath troubled both the Am- 
bassadors so much in this whole business, as that they could 
never draw me in to make myself a party in the dispute, for 
as, at the first, I never asked that individual house ; so when 
promised and decreed to me, I never insisted upon it, pro- 
vided some other convenient one were found out for me, or 
that I myself could find out such a one for my money, and, 
effectually, about a fortnight since, did contract, under hand 
and seal, with the owner, for the entire house where I am, 
upon condition the Court did approve thereof; but the Duke 
told me, that must not be now, how well soever it might serve 
my turn, for the King would be obeyed in his own kingdom, 
and the Venetian should out. Upon the whole, all circum- 
stances which I have seen considered, it is to me apparent 
enough, that these Ambassadors of Venice, in this con- 
test, did nourish double ambition, either to carry the house 



SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE. 337 

against an English Ambassador, or that an English Ambas- 
sador should carry it against them ; but my business through- 
out hath been never to come in any competition or comparison 
with them. 

This story I have been the longer in, because the matter 
thereof hath filled this Court, and may do some others, with as 
much noise, expectation, and, I do believe, secret sidings 
too, as it had been some very weighty interest of princes or 
states. 

The heats of this summer have risen here proportionable 
to what you express of those in England." 



" From a Letter to my Lord Holies, sent by mistake to my 
Lord Ambassador Fanshawe." 

Whitehall, May 26, 1664. 

'* It is truly observed by you, that Monsieur de Liennedoth 
you wrong in not treating you with ' Excellency,' but then it 
is truly observed, that that style is quite out of use in that 
Court, and so much, that Frenchmen of any tolerable quality 
do not use it to their own Ambassador here, or in any other 
Court."— Z^irf. p. 14L 



TO MR. SECRETARY RENNET. 

Madrid, Wednesday, th July, 1664. 

" Upon Sunday the 3rd, stilo novo, of July, 1664, being the 
day of celebrating the Empress's birth, I attended his Ma- 



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jesty with the para bien; also, in the Queen's apartment, her 
Majesty, the Prince, and Empress : it was the first time I had 
seen the Prince." — Ibid. p. 142. 



TO MR. SECRETARY BENNET. 

Madrid, Friday the 12th of August, 1664, N. S. 

" The design of the French courtesy in my pubhc audience, 
even then perceivable and perceived, is now full blown ; that 
the King hath in person expostulated with the Spanish Am- 
bassador at Paris, why the King his master would offer, by 
an innovation in the Spanish Court at that time, to bereave 
him, the said French King, of an opportunity of vindicating 
his just precedence of the King of England, and in pursuance 
thereof hath since sent letters to this Court to the same effect, 
and to demand restitution of the former custom in first en- 
trances of Ambassadors from such others as they found here, 
which demand this French Ambassador hath done and doth 
manage to that degree of heat, with and in this Court, as, 
amongst other expressions, to have plainly threatened, that if 
he were not satisfied in this point, he would himself dispute 
the precedency with the Ambassador of the Emperor; I can- 
not say with the Pope's Nuncio too, because that hath not 
been told me, but the sequence is as if it had been so ; for of 
certain, both the Emperor's Ambassador and Pope's Nuncio, 
and more, if not all, addressed themselves to his Catholic 
Majesty, have either by word of mouth or memorial, or both ; 
the which I do rather believe, that since the French Ambas- 
sador did assume that liberty and privilege to himself, as to 



SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE. 339 

send his coach and family to the English Ambassador, con- 
trary to the new order, it might be free for them to do the 
like to all other hereafter. All these particulars I have had from 
the Duke de Medina de las Torres ; with this farther, that the 
French King enforced his said demand with many presents ; 
the Duke told me the matter is sub judice, and not deter- 
mined ; therefore, yesterday, having obtained audience, I pre- 
sented to his Catholic Majesty, according to my late intima- 
tion to your Honour, the herewith inclosed protest, or not 
protest, as this or any other Court shall understand it, or ra- 
ther as the King, our master, in his princely wisdom, shall in- 
terpret or command me to interpret the same, whose royal 
directions in the case long since to be foreseen, I shall now 
by every post expect, for my better light, in case of revival 
of the former custom, which, by the packing of the cards, I 
conceive to be most probable ; keeping myself in the interim 
that they come not upon my guard, the best I may. 

The Venetian Ambassador's entry, which is next expected, 
can put me to no difficulty at all, in respect his predecessor never 
thought fit to give me a visit, either of welcome when I ar- 
rived, or farewell when he departed, whereof I formerly ad- 
vertised you at large, and how such neglect hath been resented 
in another age. The Holland Ambassador, now resident 
mutato nomine, will have his entrada soon after ; there will 
be some scruple, yet no very great one ; on the contrary, 
I think there is a rational query whether I, or any other 
of the Ambassadors de Capilla, should visit him at all. 
The case is in his quality of Resident ; he hath totally de- 
clined the visiting either the Emperor's, or me, or the French 
Ambassador ; because the other two first, and then I, by 
their example, did not assent to treat him with ' Senoria Illus- 
trissima,' and in our own houses with the hand and upper 
chair, thislatter, of giving him precedence in our own houses, 

z 2 



340 CORRESPONDENCE OF 

being, I conceive, the only point he absolutely insists upon. 
Now if we do him wrong in this, why should we not right 
him whilst he is yet under the notion of Resident ? And if 
we do him none, why should we visit the Holland Ambassador 
in our turn, when the Holland Resident, especially, being the 
same person, will not visit us in this? 

Here is a Danish Resident, and an Enviado of Genoa, 
who stand off upon the very same terms both with those Am- 
bassadors and with me. The latter having obliged me, by 
message, to solicit for the King our master's orders to guide 
me on behalf of his pretence, because I had sent hhn word, 
that without such I could not in discretion and civility, 
being a new comer, vary from the judgment and practice of 
my seniors in this Court. 

Your Honour, by your long and late experience here, will 
understand the pinch of this business better than yet I do ; 
who^ by what 1 can learn, am of opinion, that according to the 
style of this Court, perhaps of all others likewise, a King's 
Ambassador, in his own house, doth not give the hand to 
another King's resident, much less ' illustrissima,' twenty years 
ago ; but then again, I am informed, that now these very 
Ambassadors of Germany and France, who may with jus- 
tice enough make scruple of that, may at the same time give 
* illustrissima,' and, within their own doors the hand, to a Ducal 
Ambassador ; thereby preferring them to their own residents : 
an old controversy not easily decided, and yet in a fair way 
to be so, when by strong inference we shall be found judges 
against ourselves. I have farther to avow, in justification of 
my not sending to accompany the Hollander in his entrada, 
or any other but a new French Ambassador, that having 
been myself accompanied from none of them who show them- 
selves now so zealous to perform that function to others, I 
have no reason to perform it towards them, until 1 shall have 



SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE. 341 

received the King my master's particular direction therein, 
after knowledge of what hath passed. 

This, by way of discussion, not by decision of the question ; 
for although, by my seventeenth instruction, it is very clear I 
must give not the hand to any King's Ambassador, on which 
behalf his Majesty shall not need to doubt my zeal, neither, 
I hope, the success, how roughly soever the precedence may 
be jostled for, whether by them or theirs ; yet, whether by re- 
ceiving by such arts as are now on foot, and for such ends as 
are now declared, the forementioned custom of Ambassadors 
sending their coaches and families to each others entradas, 
be such a point of advantage above me, as in the same in- 
struction I am commanded to be wary of; and whether, in 
that case, I am not to thrust in for a share, in as good a room 
as I can get by scratching for, since others by their unquiet- 
ness, or by their inconstancy, impose the necessity, there will 
be the question ; whereof I do now hope for resolution from 
his Majesty by every post, of what I formerly writ concern- 
ing this matter, then in prospect, and find, by your honour's 
last, that those despatches were at the writing thereof come 
newly to hand." — Ibid. p. 199. 



TO MR. SECRETARY RENNET. 

[Memoiks, p. 223.] 

Madrid, Wednesday 12th of October, 1664, English style. 

"■ Since my last to you of yesterday, the President of Castile 
having by the King's special and angry command, gone forth 
to the neighbouring villages, attended with the hangman, 



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and whatsoever else of terror incident to his place and dero- 
gatory to his person, the markets in this town begin to be 
furnished again plentifully enough, yet so as that the bullion 
remaining fallen to the half value, bread, wine, and other 
provisions, are held uj> much higher than they were before in 
the numerical money ; the reason is, whether upon intelli- 
gence or jealousy, the people that sell, do expect a second 
speedy fall, in which regard they rather choose to part with 
their wares upon trust, as many do and will, to receive for the 
same at the rate money shall go awhile hence, than for pre- 
sent money, though to persons whom before they would 
have been very scrupulous to have trusted." — Ihid, p. 9,^5. 



TO MR. SECRETARY RENNET. 

[Memoirs, pp. 222, 231.] 
Madrid, Wednesday 19th of October, 1664, English style. 

" Upon the 10th instant, stilo novo, invited by the delicacy 
of the weather, and not knowing whether I should have 
another opportunity for it during my residence in this Court* 
together with my family, man, woman, and child, I took a 
small journey by stealth, of three days going and coming, to 
Aranjuez. 

As soon as it was known that I was gone, the Duke of Medina 
de las Torres sent a post after me, with a letter to myself, 
of courtly chiding, that 1 had given the Spanish civility the 
slip in that manner, with another to the officers of the palace, 
to perform their part towards me, which was not wanting in 
any needful degree, although the ^ Prcpio,' tracing me all the 
way, could not reach me till I got home again. 



SIR RICHAKD FANSHAWE. 343 

For the same reasons, we began another journey, upon 
Monday last, to the Escurial.* This was not, nor could be 
kept secret; therefore the Duke, prompting his Catholic 
Majesty, sent his orders before, by virtue whereof 1 was 
lodged in the quarter there of the Duke of Montalto, Major- 
domo Major to the Queen, and of like special order, by 
the Prior of that most famous monastery, showed, with all de- 
monstrations of courtesy, the much that is tliere to be seen, 
besides an extraordinary present of provisions, of all which 
Don Juan Comboe, whose company I was favoured with in 
this excursion, is able, if he pleases, to give you a better 
account than I. 

Before I was returned half-way to this Court, we met 
some French, who told us the French Ambassador was fol- 
lowing them to the Escurial. Advanced as far as a very small 
village, about a league from Madrid, the highway lying by a 
single house, at the outskirts thereof, at the door of the same, 
were two that wear his livery, of whom one of my people, 
asking whether the French Ambassador was coming towards 
the Escurial ? they replied * No ;' but that his Excellency was 
in that village, and thence immediately to return to Madrid. 
That is all I yet know pertaining to that matter ; unless 
this be, that it hath rained plentifully from morning to night, 
being, as the year hath fallen out, very extraordinary, the 
first day here of winter. Thus much may be built upon as a 
certainty, that neither the palace here upon Monday morning 
when I went, nor the Escurial this morning when I left it, 
had the least notice or inkling of any intention of the French 
Ambassador to go thither at this time. 

A report there hath been for some days whispered, that the 

* Lady Fanshawe, p. 224, says they went to the Escurial on the 27th 
of October. Her Ladyship calculated by the new, and Sir Richard by 
the old style. 



344 CORRESPONDENCE OF 

said Ambassador is revoken. To notify which the more^ it 
is possible he might design this visit to the Escurial, which 
is commonly left to the last by all public persons from 
abroad:'— Ibid. p. 267. 



TO MR. SECRETARY RENNET. 

Madrid, Wednesday 12th of November, 1664, N. S. 

*'" On Monday last, in the afternoon, I should by appoint- 
ment have had a conference with the Duke of Medina de 
las Torres, but in the morning his Excellency sent to excuse 
it for that time, upon notice then arrived of the death of his 
kinsman, the Duke of Medina Sidonia, which obliged him 
to the offices which those cases require. 

The manner of this Duke's death, like his quality, was 
extraordinary. His Excellency was, for his diversion and 
recreation, being as then in good health to all outward ap- 
pearance, and not much stricken in years, at a town of his 
own, not far from Valladolid, where you know his constant 
appointed abode was ; in that place of recreation, his Excel- 
lency had some number of dogs, newly given him, the which^ 
looking out of his windows, he happened to see worrying 
a poor woman. They neither killed nor maimed her, but the 
Duke's apprehension was so great they would do the one or 
the other, that violently crying out from the place where 
he was unto his people to prevent it, he fell into a sudden 
ecstasy ; from that into a deep melancholy, and from that 
into a fever, which despatched him before his physicians could 
come from Valladolid ; so thereby verifying in his particular 
the surname of his family, de puro bucno murio." 



SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE. 345 

" Upon the 7th of November, N. S. I gave the King, Queen, 
Prince, and Empress, the para Men of the Prince's birth- 
day. The day itself was the precedent, and then it was that I 
desired audience to that end, by the Master of the Ceremo- 
nies ; but it was appointed me, as I have said, to avoid con- 
currence with others, as I do beheve, according either to the 
old or new style of this Court, the which I have formerly 
mentioned. However, for the English Ambassador alone, as 
might be supposed, all the royal persons put themselves de 
gala, both as to apparel and humour. True it is, to make up 
the joUity enough for two days at least, there met in one, 
and the para bien was accordingly both from the other Am- 
bassadors the day before, and from me then, the Peace of 
Germany, and the Prince's birth-day and both were very well 
taken."— J6zV/. p. 290. 



TO MR. SECRETARY RENNET. 

Madrid, Monday 14th of November, 1664, English stile. 
" Inclosed with this, I send you a print of that new inven- 
tion here for ploughing, which you did lately command me 
to inquire out."* — Ibid. p. 321. 

* Mr. Bennet, in a letter to Sir Richard Fanshawe, dated 29th of 
September, 1664, observed, " Sir George Downing tells me of a new 
invention of a plough in Spain. I beseech your Excellency to inquire 
after it. He saith an Italian hath made it, and that it is not only re- 
ceived in Spain, but sent into the Indies also, for the good of their 
l&nd/'—Ihid. p. 279. 



346 CORRESPONDENCE OF 



TO MR. SECRETARY RENNET. 

[Memoirs, pp. 233, 235.] 

Madrid, Wednesday 14tli of December, 1664, O. S. 

" These five or six nights last past here hath appeared a very 
strange blazing star, so high and so clear that I presume it 
must needs have been seen in England likewise, and there- 
fore forbear to give any description or judgment thereof, the 
people of this country not being so curious in such matters as 
ours are there. 

Yesterday I went to give the King and Queen the nora 
buena of her Majesty's birth-day, which was the day before. 
As soon as I came from the King, the Dutch Ambassador 
was called in ; and at his coming out, it being a very dry day, 
and we having an hour to spend before the Queen would be 
ready to receive us, I invited him into my coach, and we took 
a turn in the town, which caused almost as much wonder in 
this people as the blazing star ; and indeed I did it to that 
end partly, there being no offence in it that I know, so long 
as his Majesty hath an Envoy in Holland, and the States an 
Ambassador in England. The truth is, many of this people 
begin to apprehend, that our disputes with them will have 
a quite other issue, and a very different operation, as other 
interests, and Spain amongst the rest, than Spain imagined. 

Last night was before the palace a masquerade on horse- 
back. I had a balcony appointed me in the armoury over the 
stables of his Majesty : the Dutch Ambassador, another for 
him next below mine, the rest of the Ambassadors in an 
entresuelo of the palace. 

Mine I left to my gentlemen, and sat myself with the Duke 
of Medina de las Torres, at his quarters in the palace ; my 



SIR RICHAJID FANSHAWE. 347 

wife in another room thereby with the Duchess." — Ibid 
p. 376. 



TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR. 

[Memoirs, p. 420.] 
Madrid, the 24th of January, 1664, N. S. 
" Mt Lord, 

I send your Lordship herewith inclosed, two transcripts, 
the one of a project, at making of which I was never good ; 
but this is of a peace, and therefore I wish I were ; a peace 
between Castile and Portugal, hardly practicable upon any 
terms, as I do humbly conceive, much less upon these, pro- 
posed by an unknown author, with regard to either side ; yet 
I have thought them not unworthy your Lordship's notice, as 
possibly more practicable elsewhere, as to form, and in a 
great measure as to matter likewise, than in the altitude for 
which they were designed. 

The other transcript is of a fresh libel, in and upon this 
Court and palace : a commodity I have in my nature no incli- 
nation at all to vent, either by wholesale or retail ; yet is this 
fit also, in my humble judgment, for persons of great near- 
ness to his Majesty not to be unacquainted with, representing 
sores which are in foreign kingdoms, whereby to praise God 
the more for the modesty of ours at home, as ours for the 
great goodness of his Majesty that stops our mouths, or 
rather fills them with prayers to God and him ; not censur- 
ing other princes, neither for the liberties of their subjects in 
their disparagement, much less these of Spain, than whom, 
from all times, none talk more against, or (our own nation 



348 CORRESPONDENCE OF 

only excepted) acts more for, their kings. This damnable libel 
doth not spare one Councillor of State here present, but the 
Inquisidor General ; and to crown the damnation of it, the 
King himself bears the burden, besides the smaller game it 
picks up by the way. So more than ordinary black is the 
Spanish ink at this day, and the mouths of two too many, loud 
ones too, much of the same dye. 

This King, by what I can collect, as crazy as he is, may 
rub out many years : his Majesty eats and drinks ordinarily 
with a very good stomach, I am told, three comfortable meals 
a day ; an d full of merry discourse, when and where his 
lined robe of Spanish royal gravity is laid aside. 

Some discourse begins to be of swearing the Prince. The 
sending the Infanta this spring to her Imperial Crown 
is absolutely concluded, say the most, and some say no. 
Certain it is, the ceremony of this kingdom requiring, that 
a Cardinal in the spiritual, and some very great lay-person in 
the temporal, should be joint conductors of her Imperial Ma- 
jesty ; for the first. Cardinal Colonna, a vassal born of this 
Crown, chosen by the Pope, is now actually entered in this 
Court to the same end ; and for the second, the Duke of 
Cardona, invited thereunto by his Catholic Majesty, after 
many great ones, namely, the Duke of Alva and Montalto, 
had refused or excused it, hath publicly accepted the charge. 

By this latter hangs a story. Your Lordship well knows, that 
in these more civilized countries, no man will go upon his 
master's errand without a reward beforehand (so the Marquis 
of Sandy, the Conde de Molina, and others innumerable,) 
therefore his Catholic Majesty, even after acceptance as a 
thing of course, was graciously pleased to bid the said Duke 
of Cardona propose for himself, referring him for that pur- 
pose to the Duke's friend, the Conde de Castrillo, President 
of Castile. The Duke tells the Conde he must have three 



SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE. 349 

things granted him in hand, else would he not budge a foot. 
* What are those V said the Conde, in some disorder. 'First,' 
said the Duke, ' I will be made a grandee of Spain,' and his 
Excellency is so, I take it three or four times over : ' Secondly, 
I will have the Toison,* he has it long since : ' Thirdly, the 
Conde de Chinchon shall treat me with Excellency,' The 
riddle of this is, that the said Conde de Chinchon, being no 
Grandee, and nominated for Ambassador Ordinary to the 
Emperor, though since excused of going, for want of health, 
or other allegations, doth, upon that account alone, during 
life, according to the style of this Court, remain with the title 
of Excellency. This action of the Duke of Cardona is here 
very much celebrated, and the saying little less." — Ibid, 
p. 420. 



TO THE KING. 

[Memoirs, p. 249.] 

Madrid, Monday 6th of February, 1664-5, O. S. 
" May it please your Majesty, 

The bearer hereof, Mr. Charles Bertie, son to the Earl of 
Lindsey, having done me the honour, together with other 
gentlemen of rank and personal worth, to afford me his com- 
pany out of England hitherto, and now with them homewards 
bound, by the way of France ; I find myself encouraged by 
the opportunity of so noble a hand for conveyance, to give 
your Majesty this first immediate trouble of any lines of 
mine, since I had last the happiness to kiss that of your 
Majesty, as well to throw myself, in all humility, at your 



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royal feet, as to render very briefly a faithful character of 
this young gentleman, in a more particular manner, whose 
virtues and extraordinary qualities, the former not lost, the 
latter acquired with much travels at few years, do no whit 
degenerate from the nobility of his blood, and active loyalty 
of his progenitors ; my duty to your Majesty, as well as 
my affection to his person, obliging me ex officio to this short 
testimony of his merits unrequested, to the end so hopeful a 
branch of that house may not want even this means among 
others, of being early known to his Sovereign, I could 
humbly wish I could add, his master too, and that in some 
near degree of service to your sacred person, for the present, in 
order to public employment for the future ; towards which, as 
years shall increase, and occasions be ministered, he is already 
furnished, in a very good measure, wath two principal and 
proper gifts, that of tongues, and that of observation. But I 
forget to whom I speak, for which most humbly begging 
your royal pardon, I crave leave to subscribe myself," &c. — 
Ibid. p. 437. 



TO MRo SECRETARY BENNET. 

[Harl. MSS. 7010, f. 239.] 

Madrid, Tuesday, g April, 1665. 
" This King, with the Queen and Empress, have now been 
almost a fortnight at iVranjuez, to their great content, and also 
of this Court, to hear his Majesty is so vigorous there, as at 
one time to have set on horseback a matter of three hours, 
and in that posture to have killed a wolf from his own hands ; 
whereas, before his going hence, it was doubted by many 
whether he had sufficient health and strength to perform the 



SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE. 351 

journey, though but seven leagues, in a coach or litter, and 
that in two days. The little Prince remains here in the 
palace, as far as I can learn, nothing so lively as his father ; 
pray God he prove so lasting ! 

In this interim, Don John de Austria hath had leave to 
reside at a house within two leagues of Aranjuez, and from 
thence stepping over to get a sight of his Majesty, which he 
did. The ceremony between them was very short, and yet 
all that passed was ceremony ; Como venis ? Como estays ? 
Dios OS grande, S^c. with which his Highness departed to the 
Queen and Empress, and from thence to whence he came, 
after the same brief ceremony ; only the Queen and Em- 
press sent him each of them a jewel for a present." 



TO LORD ARLINGTON. 

[Memoirs, p. 256.] 

Madrid, Wednesday, August, 16G5. 

" My last to your lordship, of this day was a se'nnight, made 
mention of a conference 1 was to have the Friday following 
with the Duke of Medina de las Torres, but it happened the 
same Wednesday night I fell so extremely sick as forced me 
on Thursday to send my excuse to his Excellency, continu- 
ing my bed all that day, and since my house, though, I thank 
God, with some amendment daily, and now to such a com- 
petent degree of health and strength, that upon Friday next 
I hope our meeting will hold. 

In the meantime, upon occasion of my wife's being brought 
to bed, on Sunday, the Duke hath been with me to give me 



352 CORRESPONDENCE OF 

the joy of my son, yet so as not to mingle therewith one word 
of business, making that expressly a piece of the compli- 
ment ; the rest consisting of great riches of jewels upon his 
person, and extraordinary splendour of equipage." — Ibid. 
p. 346. 



TO LORD AKLINGTON. 

[Memoirs, p. 258, 259.] 

Madrid, Thursday, -^ September, 1665. 

" My letter to your Lordship, delivered his Catholic Majesty, 
King Philip the Fourth, in a condition utterly deplored by 
most, though with a little spark of hope in some, even physi- 
cians, upon a lightening that showed itself before death as it 
proved, his Majesty giving up the ghost this morning 
between four and five of the clock, witnessed immediately by 
all the bells in town ; this being somewhat observable in my 
opinion, that neither his Majesty's sickness, nor his death, 
was concealed one moment from the people. Some care 
is taken that the news thereof shall not be sent out of these 
kingdoms till it hath first gone by their own Correos, stopping 
all others. 

In observation of the custom which ought to be observed 
in like cases, the Council of the Chamber of Castile met 
to open his Majesty's testament, which he left closed; the 
which accordingly was opened and read before the President 
and said Council, by Don Blasco de Loyola, Secretary of the 
Universal Despatch : this was done at eleven of the clock 
this forenoon. His Majesty left the Queen declared gover- 



SIR RICHARD FANSIIAWE. 353 

ness of his kingdoms, assisted by four counsellors ex-offido, 
viz. the Archbishop of Toledo, that is or shall be; the Pre- 
sident of Castile, that is or shall be; the Vice-Chancellor of 
Arragon, that is or shall be. The management of the kingdom, 
in like cases, belonging, by ancient laws of the kingdom, to 
these three dignities, though his Majesty should omit to name 
them ; and the Inquisitor- General that is or shall be : he is 
introduced by a new law. His Majesty ad^ded to this num- 
ber of four two more, one for a Grandee of Spain, which 
is the Marquis of Aytona ; and the other, who is the Conde 
de Penaranda, for Counsellor of State. His Majesty left for 
executors of this his will, the Duke of Medina de las Torres, 
Fray Juan Martinaz, who v/as his Majesty's confessor, and 
the Marquis de Velada. 

Don John of Austria came post from Consuegra, soliciting 
to see his Majesty by the means of the President of Castile, 
who, telling his Majesty that Don John desired his blessing, 
His Majesty answered, ' He had not called him, and that he 
should return presently,' which he did, as soon the King ex- 
pired. This is to the seeing him at the King's hour of death ; 
but for all that, it is said, his Majesty had already so far 
remembered him in his will as to recommend therein to the 
Queen and her assistants his son Don John of Austria, to 
regard him and employ him, and if the means he hath be not 
found sufficient for his support, to augment the same some 
other way.* 

It is said, it will not be necessary to make more ceremony 
for the giving of obedience to the new King Charles the 
Second, than with a banner upon the tower of St. Salvador, 
to proclaim, " Castilla, Castilla por el Reij Don Carlos Secondo 
vostro Senor .'" and this ought to be done by the Conde de 

* In the margin, Sir Richard has written, " Sic transit gloria 
raundi." 

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354 CORRESPONDENCE OF 

Chinchon, unto whom, being Regidor of Madrid, it belongs 
to execute the said ceremony. 

They have embahTied his Majesty, and found in one of his 
kidneys a stone of the bigness of a chesnut, in the other a 
kind of thin web. They put his very body, open-faced, with 
the state accustomed, in the great gilded hail of the Palace ; 
and upon Saturday, at night, will carry it to the Escurial to be 
interred in the incomparable Pantheon there, begun by his 
grandfather, carried on by his father, and finished by himself 
in his life-time, to a ninth wonder, if the Escurial be the 
eighth, as the Spaniards term it." — Ibid. f. 387. 



TO LORD ARLINGTON. 

Madrid, Wednesday, f^ October, 1665. 

*^ This evening I have had audience of the young King ; 
giving him, in our Master's name, first the pesame, and then 
the para bien of the time. On Friday, begin the honras of 
the King, his father ; after which, and, as I do believe, on the 
5th of the next month, because it is the King's birth-day, the 
Queen will give her first audience to Ambassadors ; none 
having yet seen her Majesty but the German, and he in his 
private capacity." — Ibid. f. 415. 



SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE. 355 

FROM LORD SANDWICH TO SIR RICHARD 
FANSHAWE. 

[BIemoirs, p. 274.] 

La Corunna, March ??, 1666. 
" My Lord, 

" Being arrived at this place through necessity of the wea- 
ther, which put us off from St. Andero, whither we were, de- 
signed, I find it requisite to give speedy notice thereof to 
Madrid, and in the first place to your Excellency ; hoping 
this letter will have the good fortune to meet you there, and 
if it do, 1 then beseech you, either from yourself to give 
notice to the Court of my arrival, or direct this gentleman, 
Mr. Werden, of whom I have great esteem, to deliver the 
letter he hath from me to the Secretary of State, a copy 
whereof is here enclosed, if your Excellency doth not think 
fit that the same be signified to the Court both ways. I 
also farther entreat your favour in sending me such advice for 
my journey, and procuring me such helps and furtherances 
therein^ as may enable me to accomplish it with most expedi- 
tion. Mr. Werden is fully instructed in the condition of my 
retinue and carriage ; and as the affairs of both Crowns, the 
time of the year, and other circumstances considered, require 
much haste to be made in this negotiation, so the particular 
interest of the King, our Master, needs as speedy a meeting 
as can be between your Excellency and me, which I pray to 
have in your mind, and contrive in the best manner you can. 
In the meantime, as soon as anything is concluded by you fit 
for my notice, I pray you to despatch Mr. Werden back to 
me, whether I remain in this place, or shall be on ray way to 
Madrid. I have not more to say unto you fit for a letter, 
but to desire you to present my most humble service to my 

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356 CORRESPONDENCE OF 

noble Lady, and that you would believe that I come with 
that respect and resolution of doing you a service, and of 
expressing myself upon all occasions, 

My Lord, 
Your Excellency's most humble servant, 

SANDWICH." — Ibid. 



TO LORD SANDWICH. 

Madrid, April -J, 1666. 

" My wife returns many humble services to your Excel- 
lency, hoping my good Lady's health ; and likewise to be 
sooner happy in waiting upon her than your Excellency, as, 
taking her leave this very day hereof of the Queen and Era- 
press, bound for England, at her good old father's long im- 
portunities to have his dear daughter and all her children rest 
with him before he dies."^ — Ibid. 



FROM LORD SANDWICH TO SIR RICHARD 
FANSHAWE. 

(original.) 
From My Quinta, near the Corunna, April -, 1666. 

** It is my great misfortune that I am like to miss of the hap- 
piness of kissing my good lady's hand at Madrid, to whom 
ray wife and I are so infinitely obliged. The best satisfac- 
tion I can have next, is to hear that her ladyship hath good 



SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE. 357 

health and prosperity on her journey; which I most heartily 
wish, as 1 do all sorts of occasions, whereby to express unto 
her ladyship and yourself with what fidelity, I am, 

My Lord, 
Your Excellency's most humble and most obedient Servant, 

SANDWICH.'^ — Ibid. 



TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR. 

Madrid, Thursday,^^ April, 1666. 

*' The Empress, married by proxy, which was the Duke de 
Medina de las Torres, upon Sunday last, did yesterday begin 
her journey from this Court towards Vienna. Her Imperial 
Majesty carried along with her a vast treasure in money, plate, 
and jewels ; so, in that respect, will much enfeeble this sum- 
mer's preparation against Portugal : in another regard the 
despatch of that great affair out of the way, which hath 
wholly taken up these Councils in pro's and cons for many 
months past, hath left them at liberty to prosecute with the 
more vigour this war/' — Ibid. 



TO SIR PlIILIP WARWICK. 

Madrid, 3d of May, 1666, s. n. 
*' DEAR BROTHER, 

'' There was due to me, on 6th of March last past, upon 
my ordinary entertainment, the sum of two thousand pounds, 
of which I have not yet received one shilling, notwithstand- 



358 CORRESPONDENCE OF 

ing that I was forced to run myself in debt for my late jour- 
ney to Portugal ; as I have written long since to my Lord 
Arlington, requesting I might, by his Lordship's means, obtain 
a particular Privy Seal for the reimbursement of my laying- 
out therein, as was promised when that case should arrive. 

Moreover, I have both pawned and sold plate for my pre- 
sent subsistence, and if immediately I do not receive a sup- 
pl)' of all that is due to me upon amount of ordinaries, the 
which I do hopefully expect upon former addresses to that 
purpose, I cannot subsist longer in this Court, nor yet know 
how to remove out of it, if such should be his Majesty's or- 
ders of revocation, by ray Lord of Sandwich : a thing intimated 
to me here by more than common persons, whether with or 
without ground I cannot say, having not heard one word 
from any Minister of our Court for the space of above seven 
weeks last past, or concerning myself any thing out of Eng- 
land, save what I read in a London diurnal, that letters from 
me out of Portugal, by sea, signifying my then immediate 
return for Madrid, were come to hand. The like whereof 
having never Jiappened to me before, so much as for a fort- 
night's time, I am utterly to seek what to impute it to, unless 
it be interceptings in France since the war hath been declared. 
In the meantime, it puts me to a great confusion in many 
respects, particularly for the want of monies ; and thus far- 
ther I crave leave to inform you upon the same point, which 
is, that if my brother Tumor's kindness had not advanced 
out of his own purse, to comply with my bills, above a thou- 
sand pounds, before he received the last tallies on my behalf, 
whereof I have not had any notice, I had been reduced to 
yet greater extremities than these I am contending with. 

Having thus delivered the truth of my condition in mat- 
ter of fact, I presume there will need nothing farther of ar- 
gument, with so good a friend and brother, to quicken and 



SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE. 359 

keep alive your constant endeavours for me, or indeed with 
such others whose concurrence is necessary to render your 
brotherly offices effectual, to afford the same accordingly, 
upon the mere account of our Master's honour and service, 
without other relation to the person that bears his image in 
this particular. 

I pray you, as you have done hitherto, permit my brother 
Turnor to remind you of these things as often as occasion 
shall require. 

My Lord Sandwich, according to our computation here, 
will begin his journey towards us to-morrow from the 
Corunna, and if his excellency makes no stop by the way 
will arrive in this Court about twenty days hence, hardly 
sooner. I rest, dear brother, your most affectionate brother 
and faithful servant, 

kiCHARD TANSHAWE.**— liirf. 



TO HIS MAJESTY. 

Madrid, Thursday, 3rd of June, 1666, stilo loci. 
'' May it please your Most Excellent Majesty, 
" By the hands of my Lord of Sandwich, who arrived in this 
Court, upon Friday last, was delivered to me a letter of Revo- 
cation from your Majesty, directed to the Queen Regent ; 
and at the same time another, with which your Majesty 
honoured me for myself, implying the principal, if not the 
only, motive, of the former, to have been, some exceptions 
that had been made to the papers which I signed with 
the Duke of Medina de las Torres, upon the 17th of De- 



360 CORRESPONDENCE OF 

cember last past ;* a consideration sufficient to have utterly 
cast down a soul less sensible than hath ever been mine of 
your Majesty's least show of displeavsure, though not accom- 
panied with other punishments, if your Majesty according to 
the accustomed tenderness of your royal disposition^ in which 
you excel all monarchs living, to comfort an old servant, to 
your Majesty, had not yourself broken the blow in the descent, 
by this gracious expression in the same letter : That I may 
assure myself, your Majesty believes I proceeded in the arti- 
cles signed by me, as aforesaid, with integrity and regard to 
your royal service, and that I may be farther assured the 
same will justify me towards your Majesty, whatever ex- 
ceptions may have been made to my papers. 

In obedience to your Majesty's letter above-mentioned, I 
make account, God willing, to be upon my way towards Eng- 
land some time next month ; having in the interim performed 
to my Lord Sandwich, as I hope I shall to full satisfaction, 
those offices which your Majesty commands me in the same ; 
whose royal person, council, and undertakings, God Al- 
mighty preserve and prosper many years ; the daily fervent 
prayer of 

Your Majesty's ever loyal subject, ever faithful and most 
obedient servant, 

RICHARD FANSHAWE." 



* Sir Richard Fanshawe wrote in the margin of the rough transcript, 
" Relating to the Commerce of this Crown, and the establishing a 
Truce between these and Portugal.'^ 



SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE. 361 

FROM LYON EL FANSHAWE, ESQ. TO JOSEPH 
WILLIAMSON, ESQ. 

[Memoirs, p. 294.] 

Madrid, Thursday, i June, 1666. 

" My Lord having been taken with a very sharp fit of 
sickness two days since, and not yet being well able either 
to write or dictate a letter himself, hath commanded me to 
entreat you, that you will please to present his most humble 
service to my Lord Arlington, and beseech his Lordship to 
excuse his not writing by this post. 

The Empress is said not to be yet embarked, though there 
are thirty galleys ready to attend her in her voyage. 

My Lord of Sandwich hath not, as yet, had his first pub- 
lic audience. Sir Robert Southwell intends, within a day or 
two, to begin his journey for Portugal." — Ibid, 



NOTES AND INDEX 



NOTES. 



P. 11, Alice Bourchier, of the Earl of Bath's family. 
This was not the fact. She was the daughter of Anthony 
Bourchier, Esq, of the County of Gloucester, a family in no 
way connected with the noble house of Bath. 

P. 64, Lady Carteret » 

It was apparently this Lady, of whom Pepys observes, 
30th June, 1662. " Told my Lady (Carteret), how my Lady 
Fanshawe is fallen out with her only for speaking in behalf 
of the French, which my Lady wonders at, they having been 
formerly like sisters." — Diary, vol. i. p. 284. 

P. 71, In December, my husband went to Paris. 
This must be a mistake for November ; for in September he 
was on board the fleet in the Downs, and after passing six 
weeks in Paris, he went to Calais with Lady Fanshawe on the 
25th of December, 1649. The date of the year is also erro- 
neous, as it is evident from the context that it was 1648, 
page 72. 



366 NOTES. 

p. 74<, About this time the Prince of Orange was born. 
An error, as he was born on the 4th Novemberj 1650. 

P. 77, Beginning of November, 1650. 
These events happened in November, 1649. 

P. 87, Latter end of February, 
In page 90, Lady Fanshawe says, they embarked from 
Galway at the beginning of February. In page S7, it should 
probably be " latter end oi January,'" 

P. 112, Cousin Evelyn's wife. 

Evelyn frequently mentions his " cousin, Richard F'anshawe," 
in his Diary. On the 6th of February, 1651-2, he says, 
•' I went to visit ray cousin Richard Fanshawe, and divers 
other friends ;" and on the 6th of March, in that year, he ob- 
serves, " My Cousin Richard Fanshawe came to visit me, and 
inform me of many considerable affairs." On the 23rd of 
November, 1654, he went to London to visit his " cousin 
Fanshawe." — Diary, vol. ii. pp. 48, 49. 98. Lady Brown, Mr. 
Evelyn's mother-in-law, died at Woodcot, in Kent, towards 
the end of October, 1652. — Ibid, p. 61. 

P. 113, For second of September, read third. 

P. 119_, His patent of Baronet, and his patejit of Additional 
Arms, 
A coat of augmentation was granted to Richard Fanshawe, 
Esq. Remembrancer of the Exchequer, and to his family, 



NOTES. 367 

by patent, dated at Jersey, 8th of February, 2 Car. II., 1650, 
being " Cheeky Argent and Azure, a Cross Gules." Grants 
of that kind to persons who distinguished themselves in the 
service of the King were very general, and consisted, in most 
cases, either of the lion of England, a fleur-de-lis, or, as in 
the instance of Mr. Fanshawe, of the Cross of St. George. 
Sir Richard was created a Baronet on the 2nd of September, 
1650. 

P. 138, 25th of May, 
Query, twenty-sixth. 

P. 140, The King was crowned when my husband, being in 

waiting, 8fc. 

Evelyn informs us, that at the coronation of Charles the 
Second were " Two persons, representing the Dukes of 
Normandy and Aquitaine, viz. Sir Richard Fanshawe and Sir 
Herbert Price, in fantastic habits." — Diary, vol. ii. p. 168. 

P. 143, 8M Jw/ze, 1662. 
Query, 8 th of January. 

P. 144, The marriage ofth& Queen. 
As it must be inferred that Lady Fanshawe derived her in- 
formation from her husband, who, she says, was present, 
her account of the ceremony is deserving of attention, be- 
cause some doubt has been entertained of the manner in 
which it was solemnized.— See Bishop Kennett's Historical 
Register, p. 693. 

P. 147, Upon Sunday, the lOth of August, ue took our 
journey to Portugal. 
Evelyn says, " 5th of August, 1662, to London, and next 



368 NOTES. 

day to Hampton Court, and took leave of Sir R. Fanshawe, 
now going ambassador to Portugal." — Diary, vol. ii. p. 195. 

P. 147, My husband left some of his coats of arms, which he car- 
ried with him for that purpose, as the custom of the ambas- 
sadors is, to dispose of where they lodge. 
This custom is still retained in the instances of the Lords 

Lieutenant of Ireland. 

P. 158, Had made his so?i an English Baron. 

No record exists of any foreigner having been created a 
Peer by Charles the First. 

P. 172, Colonel Colepeperf whose mother was widow unto the 
Lord Strangford. 
About this person a letter appeared in the Gentleman's Ma- 
gazine, for October 1827, apparently, from the signature, writ- 
ten by the present Lord Strangford, where reference is made 
to some extraordinary MSS. of Colonel Colepeper's, in the 
British Museum. It seems, from that letter, that Colonel 
Colepeper was the son of Sir Thomas Colepeper, by Lady 
Barbara, daughter of Robert Sydney, Earl of Leicester, and 
widow of Thomas, first Viscount Strangford. Besides the 
Colonel, Sir Thomas Colepeper had issue, a daughter, Ro- 
berta Anne, who married Major Thomas Porter. Of the 
horrible suspicion mentioned by Lady Fanshawe, nothing oc- 
curs in the letter in the Gentleman s Magazine ; but there can 
be little doubt that, though a man of some genius and erudi- 
tion, the Colonel was very nearly a madman. Among the MSS. 
alluded to, which are preserved in the Harleian Collection, 
are affidavits, filed in Chancery by the Colonel, denying the 
marriage of his sister, with the view of justifying his refusal 
to pay her portion to her husband ; and a draft of a petition 
to the Court of Chancery, from Colonel Colepeper, detailing 



NOTES. 369 

the particulars of a secret marriage, which had taken place 
between him and the daughter and heiress of Alexander Da- 
vies, of Edinburgh, the widow of Sir Thomas Grosvenor ; 
the unusual engagement into which they entered on the 
wedding-night; the pretended capture of the lady by the 
Algerines ; his correspondence with the French Government 
to procure her release ; the various attempts to violate her 
person by one Fordwich ; her refusal after her return to 
England to acknowledge the Colonel as her husband ; and 
his efforts to effect that recognition. The noble and accom- 
plished writer of the letter, whence these facts have been 
taken, adds — " His wife's letters to him during his impri- 
sonment, and the account of her efforts to procure his re- 
lease, exhibit proofs of the most touching and devoted 
affection, and cannot be read without the highest esteem 
for her character." — They are preserved in the Harleian 
MSS. 7005. 

P. 163, Battle of Evora. 
Pepys speaking of this battle, in which the Portuguese 
completely defeated the Spaniards, says— " 4th July, 1663. 
Sir Allen Apsley showed the Duke the Lisbon Gazette, in 
Spanish, where the late victory is set down particularly, and 
to the great honour of the English beyond measure. They 
have since taken back Evora, which was lost to the Spaniards, 
the English making the assault, and lost not more than three 
men." — Diary, vol. ii. p. 68. 

P. 173, To Dorset House, in Salisbury Court. 
Pepys thus notices Sir Richard Fanshawe's return. " Ja- 
nuary 2nd, 1661-2. Sir Richard Fanshawe is come sud- 
denly from Portugal, and nobody knows what his business 
is QhowC'— Diary, vol. i. p. 237- 

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370 NOTES. 

p. 199, Lord Duncan. 

This person, whose name is variously written in the MSS. 
was Sir William Dongan, who was created Baron Dongan and 
Viscount Dongan of Claine, in the county of Kildare, in 
the Peerage of Ireland in 1661. He was raised to the 
Earldom of Limerick, by James the Second in 1685, and 
was afterwards attainted. A letter from him to Sir Richard 
Fanshawe, dated at Xeres, 1st June, 1664, occurs among 
the Original Letters of Sir Richard Fanshawe, printed in 1701, 
page 102; and in his correspondence with Lord Arlington, 
in the British Museum, he thus alluded to him : — 

Madrid, 3rd June, 1666, stilo loci. "Lord Dongan in- 
tends to set forth from this Court to England upon Friday 
next."— if«r/. MSS. 7010, f. 274. 

Madrid, 6th of June, 1665, stilo loci. " The bearer here- 
of, my Lord Dongan, passing through this Court for Eng- 
land, offered me an opportunity of congratulating your 
Excellency, &c:'—Ibid. f. 276. 

P. 207iJuego de los torros. Bull fights, Jnego de loscanas^ 
a kind of tournament played with canes. 

P. 213, The Empress, 

Philip the Fourth of Spain succeeded his father Philip the 
Third in 1621, and married his niece, Maria Anna, daugh- 
ter of his sister of the same name by the Emperor Ferdinand. 
By her he had issue a son, Charles the Second, who suc- 
ceeded him in 1665, and died in 1700, and two daughters, 
Maria Theresa, who married Louis XIV of France, and 
Margaret, who was the wife of the Emperor Leopold, and 
who is consequently spoken of in the Memoirs as the Em- 
press. The ceremony of her marriage by proxy, and her 



NOTES. 371 

departure for her husband's dominions, are afterwards fully 
noticed. 

P. 221, Camarera mayor. 
First Lady attached to the Queen's person. 

P. 262, Siimiller de Corps. 
Great Chamberlain. 

P. 264, Pesame. 
Compliments of condolence. 

P. 265, Para bien. 
Compliments of congratulation. 

P. 2Q1, 282, Kings Aya, Empress's Aya. 
Governor, tutor. 

P. 304, And very pathetical is the Motto of our Arms for 
us — The Victory is in the Cross. 

. ** In Cruce Victoria." Another motto of the Fanshawe 
family was, " Dux vitae ratio." Of these mottoes a Cor- 
respondent in the Gentleman's Magazine for July, 1796, 
tells the following story. " When Sir Richard was ambas- 
sador, and was travelling in Spain in an English carriage with 
his arms upon it, surrounded by the two mottoes belonging to 
them — Dux vitce Ratio — In Cruce Victoria; a crowd of pea- 
sants gathering round the unusual sight of so many fo- 
reigners, in a town where they stopped for refreshment, were 
very anxious with a priest, who happened to be amongst 
them, for an explanation of the Latin ; which being beyond 
his skill, he informed them that the coach belonged to the 

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372 NOTES. 

Duke of Vitse Ratio, who had done great things for the 
Cross. 

P. 335, Aposentadores. 

Officers of the Court, whose duty it is to arrange the 
apartments, &c. 



THE FORM OF A PRAYER USED BY MY LORDS CHAPLAIN, IN 
THE DAILY SERVICE IN HIS EXCELLENCy's CHAPEL IN 
PORTUGAL AND SPAIN. 

Blessed God, we beseech thee to be propitious in a singular 
manner to my good Lord, his Excellency, his Majesty's Am- 
bassador in this kingdom ; preserve him unto us in health 
and strength, and grant that he may so manage those weighty 
affairs he is employed in, that the issue of his negotiation may 
be to thy glory, the satisfaction of our Sovereign, and the 
mutual good and benefit of all his subjects and allies. Bless 
his most virtuous Lady ; indue her with the blessings of this 
life, and that to come ; make his children thy children, his 
servants thy servants, that this family may be a Bethel, a 
house of God ; that we, all serving thee with one accord 
here on earth, may for ever glorify thee in Heaven. Amen. 



A PRAYER used IN THE DAILY SERVICE OF THE CHAPEL 

> 

AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE LORD AM- 
BASSADOR. 

B JESSED God which suppliest the wants and relievest the 
troubles of thy servants, be particularly gracious to this fa- 
mily, and here, in a special manner, bless my most virtuous 



NOTES. 373 

Lady, and give her patience under thy hand, submitting to 
thy will and contentedness under every change ; and vire be- 
seech thee so continually to assist her in the course of her life, 
that she may experimentally find thee a God all-sufficient, 
though the helps of this world fail ; make her children thy 
children ; bestow upon them thy choicest blessings, who 
hath promised to be a father to the children s' children of 
those that trust in thee ; make her servants thy seivants, 
that this family may be a Bethel, a house of God ; that we, 
all serving thee with one accord here on earth, may for ever 
hereafter glorify thee in Heaven. Amen. 



INDEX. 



Albuquerque, Duke of, 185, 186. 190, 191. 217. 281, 282. 
313. 



-, Duchess of, 189, 190. 273. 277. 314. 316. 



Albersan, Marquess of, 324. 

Alcala, Duchess of, 195, 196, 197. 

, Duke of, 195, 196. 199. 317. 

Acrasse, Countess de, 168, 169. 

Alcantara, Abadessa of, 154. 

Alguazil, a, 271. 

Alhambra, near Grenada, description of, 95. 9^. 

Allington, Sir Giles, 17. ' 

Alonzo, Don, 2S2, 

Alston, Lady, 26. 

Alva, Duke of, 236. 278. 348. 

, Princess, 257, 

Ambassador of France, 212, 213. 217. 

from Venice, 221. 

Ambassadors of various nations, 338, 339. 346. 
Anecdotes, various, 84. 159. 161. 172. 324. 344. 348. 
Antonia, Donna Maria de^, 164. 
Aposentadores, 321.336. 372. 
Apsley, Sir Alan, 55. 

Arana, Juan, a celebrated Spanish Comedian, 236. 
Aranjuez, description of, 222. 
Archer, Judge, 75. 

Arlington, Lord, 292. 294. 29Q, 297. 358. 
Arms, custom of escutcheons of those of Ambassadors' being 
left where they lodged whilst on their journeys, 147. 368. 

, grant of additional, to Sir Richard Fanshawe, 119. 3QQ. 

Arragon, Vice Chancellor of, 25^, 



376 INDEX. 

Ashburnliam, Mr. John, 66. 

, Mr. 270. 

Ashton, James, 276. 

Aston, , 31. 

, Lord, 41. 



Askew, , murdered at Madrid, 99, 100. 2S9. 

Attencbip, -^ 275. 

Avero, Duchess of, 272, 276. 

, Duke of, 152, 271. 323. 

Aubigny, Lady, 50. 

Austria, Don John of, 163, 208. 

, Donna Anna of, 258. 279. 280. 351. 353. 

Aya, the King's, 266. 274. 371. 

— — ' the Empress's, 282. 371. 

Ayala, Don Francisco de, 236, 237. 239, 240. 

AylofF, Sir Richard, 302. 

— — , Sir Benjamin, 13. 

Aylesbury, Sir Thomas, 140. 

Aytona, Marquess of, 258, 269. 

Bagshaw, Mr. 256. 270. 290. 294. 

Baker, Sir John, 39. 

Ballecas, near Madrid, residence at, 203. 211. 321. 

Balfoure, 275. 

Bamberge, Dr, 31. 
Hartley, Sir John, 41. 

, Captain, 182. 193. 

Baron, notice of a, being made by Charles L 158. 

Basset, Sir Francis, 57. 

Battevil, Baron, 322. 

Bathurst, Dr. 124. 

Batha, Richard, 287. 

Bath, Earl of, 11. 

Batters, Dr. 117. 

Batten, Sir Thomas, 172. 

Bayonne, Marquess of, 196. 198. 317. 



INDEX. 377 



Bayonne, Marchioness of, 196. 198. 
Beaufort, Duke of, 292. 
Beale, Dr. 39, 
Beaumond, family of, 31. 

Bedell, , 303. 

, Lady, 68, 69. 119. 123. 

, Sir Capell, 24. 40. 

, Mr. 275. 

Bedford, Earl of, 41. 44. 

Bell, Dr. 99. 

Benevente, Countess of, 281. 

Bennet, Mr. Secretary, Letters to, 312 to end. 

, Sir Henry, 175. 

, Nathaniel, 276. 

, Nicholas, 276. 



Berkshire, Earl of, 44. 63. 

Berkeley, John Lord, 66. 

Bertie, Mr. Charles, 171. 214. 249. 349. 

Beverley, John, 276. 

Blazing Star, seen at Madrid, 233. 

, Another, 253.346. 

Bluett, Captain, 58. 

Boddie, Mr. 275. 

Bohemia, Queen of, 135. 

Booth, Mr. 131. 

Boreman, Mr. 275. 

Boteler, Sir William, 24. 37. 65. 

, Sir Oliver, 24. 

, Lady, 64, 65. 124. 140. 

, Sir Francis, 176. 

Bourchier, Alice, 11. 365. 
Boyle, Dean, 76. 
Bradford, Lady, 47. 

, Earl of, 44. 63. 

Bridgewood, Mr. 154. 



378 INDEX. 

Bream, Sir Arnold, 138. 172. 

Bridges, Mr. 275. 

Bristol, Earl of, 20. 133. 141. 

, plague at, 54. 

Briggs, , 276. 

Broanbricke, Dr. 33. 
Brown, Lady, 112. 

, Sir Richard, 112. 

, Josias, 276. 

Buckingham, Duke of, 141. 

Buckwell, Alderi^an, 302. 

Buen Retiro, near Madrid, description of, 224. 

Bull Feasts, 164. 207. 209. 255. 321. 

Bumstead, Mr. 270. 

Burton, John, 290. 

Byde, Sir Thomas, 304. 

Caballero de Habito, a, 313. 

Cabildo, the, 313. 

Cadiz, reception of Sir Richard Fanshawe at, 183. 198. 313. 

314. 316, 317. 
; — — , Governor of, 192. 313. 
Caernarvon, Earl of, 41. 
Cambridge, Duke of, 296. 
Camden, the Historian, cited, 14. 

~ — , Lady, 24. 

Camarera, Major to the Queen of Spain, 220, 221. 256. 274, 

281. 371. 

to the King of Spain, 256. 266. 274. 

Canterbury, Archbishop of, 173, 177, 178. 

, Dean of, 172. 

Cannas, Jago de, 207. 321. 
Capell, Lady, 47. 55. 

—, Lord, 44. 62. 

Carasena, Marquess of, 255. 
Cardona, Duke of, 348, 349. 



INDEX. 379 



Carew, Mr. 287. 
Carteret, Sir Philip, 61. 

•-, Sir George, 60. 

, Lady, 64. 366. 

Castel Melhor, Conde de, 267. 
, Marquess of, 164, 165. 169. 



Roderigo, Conde de, 324. 



Castleton, Lord, 18. 
Castile, Conde de, 258. 

■ , President of, 236, 237, 238. 240. 258. 

Castrillo, Conde de, 324. 348. , ■ 

Carmona, description of the city of, 319. 
Cavendish, Lady, 145. 

, Lady Mary, 143. 

Ceremony, disputes about, 338, 339. 

Chancellor, The, 62. 

Charles I. King, 6. 66, 67. 

Charles II. King, 6. 54. 57. 59, 60. 135, 136, 137, 138, 139. 

141, 142, 143, 144. 99. 107, 108, 109. 145, 146. 177, 178, 

179, 180. 283. 293. 295, 296. 301. 
Chaumond, Mr. Joseph, 275. 
Chinchon, Conde de, 349. 354. 
Churchill, Mr. 276. 
Church, Mr. 293. 
Clare, Lord Charles, 139. 
Clancarty, Lord, 81. 

Clarendon, Lord, 127. 136. 266. See Hyde. 
Clarke, Mr. 275. 
Cockaine, Sir William, 17, 
Cole, Mr. 300. 
Colepeper, Colonel, 172. 368. 

, Lord, 44. 62, 63. 70, 

Colonna, Cardinal, 348. 
Comet. See Blazing Star. 
Compton, Sir Francis, 303. 
Comboe, Don Juan, 343, 



380 



INDEX. 



Conde, Assistente, 319. ^ * 

Congro, Don Juan de, 250. 
Consul, English, at.Cadiz, 182. 190. 

_, at Seville, 200. 204. 

Cooke, Mr. 275. 
Cooper, Richard, 276. 

— , Mr. 256. 270. 287. 294. 

Copley, Colonel, 64. 

Cordova, reception at, 206. 320. 

, Corregidor of, 206, 207. 

Cork, Earl of, 101. 

Coronation of Charles II. 140. 

Cornwall, description of, 55. 

Corps, Sumiller de, 262, 263. 371. 

Cotterel, Mr. 275. 

Court, not the custom for women to attend a king's or 

princes's court, 54. 
Cottington, Lord, 81. 101. 
Coventry, Sir William, 296. 
Coyna, Donna Maria de, 277. 
Creighton, Mr. 270. 290. 294. 
Crispe, Sir Nicholas, 58. 
Cropley Bridge, Skirmish at, 65. 
Crown, Mr. 276. 

Cromwell, Oliver, 78. 80. 83. 86. 117, 118. 126. 239, 240. 
Crux, Marquisate of, 317. 
Cueva, Don Milchade la, 185, 186. 189, 191. 
Cuney, Sir George, 124. 
Curwen, family of, 31. 
Cutler, Sir John, 175. 

Daniel, Andrew, 276. 
Danby, Lady, 71. 
Davies, Sir John, 12. 

Dennis, , 276. 

Denham, Lady, 115. 



INDEX. 381 

Desande, Marquesj^, 1 44. 

Digby, Sir Kenelra.^^g. ^ 

Dingwall, Lord, 25. 

Dongan, Lord and Lady, 199. 205, 370. 

Dorden, Mr. 275, 

Downing, Sir George, 34?5. 

Dromore, Viscount, 16. 

Dutch, defeat of the, 256. 

Bates, Mr. 64. 

Edgcombe, Sir Richard, 150. 152. 

, Lady, 150. 

, Mount, near Plymouth, the seat of Sir Richard 

Edgcombe, 150. 
Edge-hill, battle of, 16. 
Etiquette, disputes on, between the various Ambassadors at 

Madrid, 338, et, seq. 
Emperor, the, 259. 
Empress, the, 218, 219, 220, 221. 234, 235. 259. 264. 267. 

279, 280. 282. 331. 338. 345. 
Emperor's, Ambassador, wife of the, 232. 249. 250. 
Esica, 205. 
Escurial, description of the, 224. 228. 354. 

— , Prior of the, 262, 263, 264. 

Eslony, Marquess of, 256. 

Essex, Earl of, 29. 54, 55, 

Eton, Provost of, 147. 

Evelyn, Sir John, 18. 254. 

Evora, battle of, 163. 369. 

" Excellency,'' the title of, not used by well-bred Frenchmen, 

337. 
Exeter, Earl of, 14, 15. 
Eyes, Rowland, 11. 
Eyres, Mr. 270. 

Fanshawe, pedigree of, and biographical particulars of the 



382 INDEX. 

family of, 9. 12, 13. 17. 21. 25. ; the motto of the family 
alluded to, 304.371. 
Fanshawe, Sir Richard, description of his person, 4. 7. ; 
early life, 38 ; various anecdotes of, 40. 42 ; attends the 
King to Oxford, 43 ; appointed Secretary of the Council of 
War, 44 ; Secretary to the Prince of Wales, 44 ; attends 
his Royal Highness to Bristol, 45 ; goes to Launceston, 
55 ; to Scilly, 57'^ to Jersey, 60 ; to Caen, 64; to London, 
65; to France, 68; returns to England, ib. ; attends the 
Prince in the Downs, 70; goes to Paris, 71 ; accompanies 
Lady Fanshawe to Calais ; goes to the Prince in Holland, 
and thence to Ireland, 74 ; sent to Spain upon an embassy, 
81 ; went to Limerick, 82 ; made a freeman of Limerick, 
ib. ; entrusted with the custody of the Seals of Ireland, 83; 
gives the Seals to Lord Inchiquin, 86 ; arrives at Madrid, 
98 ; goes to St. Sebastian, and thence to France, 99 ; ar- 
rives in Scotland, and graciously received by the King, 110 ; 
made Keeper of the Seals, 111; refuses to take the Co- 
venant, ib. ; taken prisoner at the battle of Worcester, 
114; his destination afterwards, 1 1 6 ; imprisoned at White- 
hall, 117; becoming dangerously ill, is released on bail, 119; 
notice of a grant of additional arms to him, ib. 366 ; again 
taken ill, 120 ; goes to Bath, and thence to Benford, in 
Hertfordshire, and afterwards takes a house in Tankerley 
Park, belonging to Lord Strafford, 121; translated Lues de 
Camoens, ib. ; went to France, 127 ; has an interview with 
the King at Paris, and is sent to Flanders, 134; com- 
manded to wait on the King in his own ship at the Restora- 
tion, 136 ; arrives at Dover, 138 ; receives from the hands 
of his Majesty a picture of the King set with diamonds, 1 39 ; 
attends rtie coronation of Charles II. 140, 367 ; command- 
ed to act as Chancellor of the Garter, 141 ; Proxy for the 
Earl of Bristol, at an installation of the Order, 141 ; re- 
ceives the New Years' gifts belonging to his places as 
Master of Requests, and Secretary of the Latin tongue, 
142; sent on a mission to Portugal, ib. ; returns, 143; 



INDEX. 383 

made Privy Counsellor of Ireland, ib. ; sent to welcome the 
Queen on her arrival in England, and present at her mar- 
riage, ih. 367 ; receivesfrom the King his Majesty's picture, 
145 ; embarks on an embassy for Portugal, 151 ; returns 
from his Portuguese embassy, 171 ; made a Privy Coun- 
sellor, 174; goes to Spain on an embassy, 180; public 
reception at Madrid, :214; insists on the privilege of Am- 
bassadors, 236 ; peace signed between England and Spain, 
268 ; goes to Portugal, 269; returns to Madrid, 274; dies> 
284 ; his body embalmed, and sent to England, 287 ; buried, 
294; extracts from his correspondence, 312 et seq; his 
extreme poverty, 358 ; his letter to the King on his recal, 
359. 
, Lady, birth of, 25 ; her mother's death and fu- 



neral, 26 ; extraordinary anecdote of that lady, 27 ; edu- 
cation of, 32 ; early life, 34-36 ; marriage, 37 ; her first son 
born, 45 ; goestoBristol, 48 ; anecdotes of, 48. 51. 56. 58, 
59. 77, to 80. 93. 129; to Launceston, 55 ; to Penzance, 57 ; 
to Scilly, 59; to Jersey, 60; her second child born, 62; 
goes to Caen, 64; returns to England, 64; her son Henry 
born, 65 ; interview with King Charles I. 67; goes to France, 
68; another son born, 69; returns to London, 69; goes 
to Paris, 71 ; returns to England, 73 ; goes to her hus- 
band in Ireland, 74 ; loses her son Henry, 76 ; meets 
with an accident, 77 ; her escape from Red Abbey, near 
Cork, 89; accompanies her husband to Spain, 81; her 
courageous conduct at sea, when threatened by a Turkish 
man of war, 93 ; lands at Malaga, 94 ; arrives at Madrid, 
13th April, 1650, 98 ; her eldest daughter Elizabeth 
born, 98 ; embarks at St. Sebastian for Nantz, 102 ; in 
great danger at sea, 103 ; arrives at Nantz, hnd thence 
goes by the Loire to Paris, 106 ; visits the Queen-mother 
and the Princess Henrietta, 107; settles in London, 112 ; 
her daughter born, 113; her devotion to her husband 
whilst a prisoner at "Whitehall, 117; obtains his release, 
118; her daughter Katherine born 120; her daughter 



384 INDEX. 

Margaret born, 121 ; loses her daughter Anne, 122; an- 
other daughter born, 123 ; her daughter Mary born, 124; 
loses her daughter Elizabeth, ib. ; a son born, 125; es- 
capes to her husband in France, 129 ; loses her only surviv- 
ing son, 133 ; interview with the King near Paris, 134; 
returns privately to London for money, 135; follows her 
husband to Newport, Bruges, Ghent, and Brussels, ib. ; 
very graciously received by the King and royal family at 
Brussels, ib. ; at the Restoration, the King orders a frigate 
to convey her family to England, 136 ; congratulates the 
King on his arrival, 139; loses her daughter Mary, 140; 
her daughter Ehzabeth born, 143; waits on the Queen 
145 ; embarks with her husband and children for Portu- 
gal, 151 ; reception at the Court of Lisbon, 156 ; her son 
Richard born and dies, 164 ; returns to England, 171 ; au- 
dience of the Queen, 177 ; takes leave of the Queen, 179 ; 
accompanies her husband in his embassy to Madrid, 180 ; 
obtains an audience of the Queen of Spain, &c. 220; vi- 
sits the Escurial, 224 ; her son Richard born, 256 ; goes 
to see the body of Philip IV. lie in state, 259 ; went to 
the Placa Mayor to see King Charles proclaimed, 264; 
takes leave of the Court, intending to return to England, 
276, 356; loses her husband, 284; returns to England, 
287 ; invited to become a Catholic, with a promise of a 
pension, 288 ; interview with the Queen-mother at Paris, 
293; arrives in London, 294; waits on the King, Queen, 
&c. 295 ; loses her father, 305. 

Fanborne, Mr. 64. 

Farnaby, Mr. 38. 

Ferrer, Capt. 275. 

, Mr. WiUiam, 275. 

Ferters, , 69. 

Ferrers, Mr. Knitton, 18, 19. 

Feme, Capt. 182. 193. 

Fernando, Don, 97. 

Fleet, the royal, betrayed to the enemy, 70. 



INDEX. 



385 



France, King of, 291. 

Queen of, 259. 

Ambassador of, insists on sending his coach, &c. at 

the reception of the English embassy at Madrid, 213. 
B27. 328-9, 331-2, 332. 333. 343. 

Francis, , 287. 

Freschville, Lord, 303. 

Freyer, Mr. 294. 

Frog Pool, now Frognall, in Kent, the seat of Sir Philip 
Warwick, 302. 

Fuentes, description of the town of, 205. 320. 

Marquess of, 205. 254. 

Funeral of the King of Spain, description of, 258. 264. 

Galway, plague at, 86. 

Garter, Chancellorship of the, 141. 

an Installation of the, 141. 

Caspar el Negro, 276. 

Gateley, Mr.275. 

German Ambassador, 278, 279. 282. 289. 

Ghost Story, a, 84. 

Gibbs, Mr. 275. 

Gibson, Thomas, 276. 

Glazed, a house ordered to be, for the reception of Sir 

Richard Fanshawe, at Sf Mary's, near Cadiz, 196. 
Gloucester, Duke of, 135. 
Goddard, Mr. 222. 
Godolphin, Mr. Francis, 181. 214. 249. 275. 

Sir Francis, 181. 

Goods, John, 276. 
Goring, Lord, 101. 

Grandison, Viscount, 30. 305, 306 ^ 

Grantham, Vincent, 21. 
Granville, Sir John, 56. 
Guilford, Lady, 72, 291, 292. 
Guzman, Don Domingo, 324. . 

2 c 



386 INDEX. 

Hardine, Bullock, 13. 

Haro, Don Louis de, 207. 324. 

Harrison, , 305. 306. 

account of the family of, 29. 31. 

.^ Richard, 65. 

William, 34. 37. 

Margaret, 74. 121. 

Mr. offered a baronetcy, S6. 

Sir John, 19. 254. 294. 302. 305. 

Hattenfordbury, 69, 
Hatton, Sir Christopher, 13. 

— Mr. 249. 

Heath, Lord Chief Justice, 112. 

Sir Edward, 23. 

Heavers, Dr. 147. 

Hele, Sir John, 150. 

Hellow, Mr. 270, 290. 

Henchman, Dr. Bishop of Salisbury, 1 48. 

Herbert, Sir Charles, 275. 

Lord, 148. 

Heydon, Mrs. 126. 
Hicks, Dean, 304- 
Hiessom, Mr. 31. 
Hilliard, Mrs. 305. 
Holland, Lord, 69. 
Holies, Lord, 326. 33/. 

Dr. 148. 

Holmes^ Captain, 169. 
Hony wood. Sir Philip, 181. 
Hooton, Edward, 276. 
Hopton, Lord, 44. 62. 

Sir Arthur, 42. 

Howlsworth, Dr. 26, 27, 28. S3. 
Hyde, Mr. 26. 

Sir Edward, 37. 44. 81. !09. 163. 174. See Cla- 
rendon. 



INDEX. 

Ibarra, Don Diego de, 3 1 3. 
Inchiquin, Earl of, 76. 83. 86. 152. 
Infanta, Donna Maria, the, 278. 
Inquisitor, General, the, 258. 
Ireland, description of, 91. 
Ireland, family of, 31. 
Irvias, Count of, 211. 232. 
Isincessa, the Marchioness of, 210. 
Itonia, Marquess of. See Aytona. 

Jarald, Mr. Richard, 275. 

Jeffereys, Mr. 276. 

Jeffries, Colonel, 78, 79. 

Jemett, Mr. 270. 287. 

Jersey, description of, 61. 

Jewel House, Master of the, 178. 

Kerke, Mr. 276. 
Kestian, Mrs. 195. 256\ 
Killegrew, William, 275. 
King, the, See Charles I. & II. 

Captain, 182. 

^ Sir Andrew, 181.214. 249. 

Kingsmill, Sir William, 22. 
Knollys, Lady, 27. 

Lawson, Admiral Sir John, 182. 184. 192. 

Lee, Sir Charles, 48. 

Lepanto, picture of the battle of, by Titian, 229. 

Leventhorpe, Lady, 24. 

Libel on the Spanish Court, notice of a, 347, 

Liche, Marquess de, 250. 253. 277. 

Marchioness de, 254. 272. 

Lienne, Monsieur de, 337. 

Limerick, Sir Richard Fanshawe made a freeman of, 181. 

Mayor and Recorder of, 82. 

Linch, Mr. 275. 

2 c 2 



387 



388 INDEX. 

Lindsey, Earl of, 181. 349. 

Lisbon, public reception of Sir Richard Fanshawe at, 153 ; 

an insurrection in, 162 ; description of, 169. 
Lisle, Baron de, 279. 
Lisola, Baroness de, 271. 277. 
Litton, Sir Rowland, 30. 
Lond, Mr. 275. 
London, news of the burning of, 292. 

— Bishop of, 20. 144. 305, 306. 

Londonderry, Bishop of, 82. 
Long, Sir Robert, 44. 

Mr. 53, 

Lorira, Mr. 214. 

Low, J 70. 

Loyla, Don Blasco de, 327. 352. 
Ludlow, Mr. 29. 

Madrid, reception of Sir Richard Fanshawe at, 212. 328. 

Major-domo, 263. 

Mallard, Mr. 275. 

Malpica, Marquess of, 212, 215. 217, 218. 281. 328. 

Marcin, Conde de, 212. 325. 

Marialva, Marquess of, 162. 

Marriage of Charles IL description of the ceremony of, 144. 

of the Infanta Donna Maria to the Emperor, by 

proxy, ceremony of the, 278. 

Marsden, Rev. , 164. 

Maurice, Prince, 77. 

Mayor, Lord, 178. 

Medina de las Torres, Duke of, 210. 212. 225. 235. 239. 256. 

262. 264. 266. 268. 270, 271-, 272, 273. 278, 279. 282. 284. 
.318. 322. 331. 326. 339. 342. 344. 346. 351. 357. 359. 
Medina de las Torres, Duchess of, 211. 219. 223,224. 232. 

235. 250, 231, 252. 256. 271. 273. 276. 
Medina de las Torres de Avero, Duke of, 289. 
Celi,Dukeof, 194, 195. 199. 313, 314, 315, 316,317. 



INDEX. 389 



Medina Sidonia, Duke of, 154. 344. 

Melham, Mr. 275. 

Mendoco, Don Lopez de^ 317. 

Michelthite, Dr. 33. 

Middlesex, Countess of, 294. 

Mitchell, Henry, 276. 

Molina, Conde de, 200, 201. 204. 317. 348. 

Mondoco, Don Lope de, 200. 206. 
Montague, Mr. Sidney, 274. 

, Colonel, 69. 

Montalto, Duke of, 225. 343. 348. 

Monterey, Count de, 289. 

Moon, Captain, 182. 

Moore, Mr. 275. 

Mordaunt, Lord, 147. 

Motto, the Fanshawe, alluded to, 304. 

Murray, Mr. Henry, 112. 

Nantz, description of, 106. 

Navas, Don Nicolas, 272. 

Needham, Doctor Jaspar, 306. 

Neito, Mr. Nicholas, 276. 

Nevill, Henry, 128, 129. 

New Years' Gifts, and fees thereon, 178, 179. 

Newport, Mr. Francis, 181.214. 249. 

. Lord, 179. 

News, Mr. William, 24. 
Nica, Marquess of, 164. 
Nicholas, Sir Edward, 109. 139. 
Norris, Mr. 136. 
Norton, Lady, 71. 
Norwich, Earl of, 101. 

O'Brien, Lady Elkenna, 76. 

Lady Honor, 83. 

Orange, Prince of, 74. 366. 



390 INDEX, 

Ormond, Duke of, 83. 136. 141. 

Duchess of, 26. 145. 

Lord, 76. 81. 

Marchioness of, 69. 

Lady, 81. 

Lord and Lady, 143. 



Oropesa, Conde de, 323. 

Oxford, description of, whilst the King was there, 36. 

Palma, Countess de, 168. 

Palmer, Sir GefFery, 37, 

Pantheon, where the Kings of Spain are interred, description 

of, 226. 354. 
Parcoust, Sir William, 46. 
Parda, the, near Madrid, description of, 222, 
Paris, improper conduct of the English at, 108. 
Parker, Mr. 275. 
Parry, Mr. 270. 
Paston, Francis, 275. 
Pastrane, Duke of, 278. 
Patricio, Father, 273. 

Peacock, ,276. 

Pedro, Don, 155.168. 

Pembroke, Earl of, 126. 148. 

Penerand, Conde de, 258. 278. 

Peterborough, Earl of, 163. 

Philip IL of Spain, husband of Queen Mary of England, 222, 

Philip IV. of Spain, 101. 

Picture of Charles IL as a child, noticed, which is considered 

to have been unique, 139 ; another in his robes of the 

Garter, 146. See Titian. 
Pimentel, Don Antonio, 192. 194. 315, 316, 317. 
Place, Mr. 276. 

Plague, notices of the, at Bristol, 54. Galway, 86. 
Plough, a new one alluded to, 345. 
Plymouth, Sir Richard Fanshawe's reception at, 150. 



INDEX. 



391 



Pommes, Madame de, 62. 

Pope's Nuncio, the, 224. 255. 339. 

Porter, Mrs. I 72. 

— Mr. 172. 

Portman, Sir William, 149. 

Portsmouth, Sir Richard Fanshawe's reception at, and made a 
Freeman of, 181. 

Mayor of, 181. 

Lieutenant-Governor of, 181. 

the town of, fired at by two Dutch men-of- 
war, 68. 

Portugal, King of, 153, 154, 155. 165, 166. 

-~ Queen-mother of, 273. 

Poyntz, Sir Robert, 12. 

Price, Mr. John, 249, 250. 267. 270. 290. 

Prince, the, 218. 

Princess Henrietta, daughter of Charles I., 71. 107. 

Privilege of Ambassadors insisted upon by Sir Richard, 236. 

Proclamation of Charles !I. King of Spain, ceremony of the, 
265. 

Prodgers, Mr. 100. 

Pyman, Henry, 275. 

Queen, the, 142,143,144,145.174. 177. 179. 293.295.296. 

300. 
Queen-mother, the, 44. 50. 54. 62. 7l, 72. 107. 179. 291, 

292, 293. 295. 304. 
of Portugal, 153, 154. 156, 157. 168. 177. 

Red Abbey, near Cork, 76. 

Restoration, description of the King's return to England, at 

the, 137. 
Rich, William, 275. 
Rico, Don Pedro, 221. 
Ridgley, Dr. 124. 
Righton, Mr. 276. 



392 INDEX. 

Rivers, Lady, 50. 

Countess of, 31. 

Robinson, Captain, 151. 

Rooks, Mr. 287. 294. 

Roscommon, Earl of, account of his extraordinary death, 82. 

Royal, Princess, 135. 109. 

Roy don, Sir Marmaduke, 49. 

Rue, Thomas, 275. 

Rupert, Prince, 74. 76. 

Russell, Richard, 276. 

Lady, 27. 

Saint Albans, Lord, 61. 

St. Estevan, Conde de, 208. 

St. German, Duke of, 335. 

St. Lawrence, Conde de, 152. 

St. Lucar, Duke of, 324. 

St. Neots, in Huntingdonshire, 69. 

St. Sebastian, description of, 102. 

Salisbury, Earl of, 31. 

Salinas, Marquess of, 231. 328. 

Sanderson, Dr. 34. 

Sandwich, Earl of, 69. 266. 268. 274, 275. 283, 284. 289, 

290. 355. 358, 359. 
Sandys, family of, 31. 
Sandy, Marquess of, 348. 
Savoy, Duke of, 259. 
Schomberg, Count, 152. 
Scilly, description of, and Lady Fanshawe's privations whilst 

in, 60. 
Scott, Sir John, 12. 
Scale, Mr. 151. 
Seville, Sir Richard Fanshawe's reception at, and description 

of, 201.204.317, 318. 
Shaftesbury, Earl of, 297. 
Shatbolt, Mr. 30. 



INDEX. 



393 



Sheldon, Dr. Bishop of London, 305. 

Shere, Mr. 275. 

Sherwood, Friar, 40. 

Sidonia, Marquess of, ^20. 

Siete Chimeneas, appointed for Sir Richard Fanshawe's re- 
sidence, and dispute about it, 221, et seq.; 344, 345. 

Skelton, Sir John, 150. 

Slanning, Sir Nicholas, 56. 

Smith, Customer, 11. 

his Sons, 11. 

Mr.. 249. 

Spain, King of, 348. 350. 352, 353, 354. 

death and funeral of Philip IV. King of, 258. 264. 

Prince of, 234, 348. 

proclamation of Charles II. King of, 264. 

Philip IV. King of, 210. 218, 219. 222. 235. 239. 

253. 256, 258. 259. 

Charles II. King of, 258, 264, 267. 274. 284. 

— Kings of, manner of proclaiming, 353. 

Queen of, 218, 219, 220, 221. 234, 235. 251, 



252. 257, 258. 263, 264, 265. 267, 268, 269. 271. 
274. 283. 287, 288, 289. 299. 

general description of, 241. 249. 

Spanish Army defeated by the Portuguese, 255. 

Sparks, Mr. executed at Madrid for the murder of As- 
kew, 100. 239. 

Strafford, Earl of, 120. 122. 

Strangford, Lord, 12. 39. 172. 

Steward, Dr. 112. 133. 

Stuard, Mr. 275. 

Southampton, Earl of, 296, 297. 

Southwell, Sir Robert, 274. 280. 

Sousa, Don John de, 155. 

Antonio de, 152. 

Sumiller de Corps, 262, 263. 371. 



394 INDEX 

Tankeisley, in Yorkshire, 122. 
Tarrel, Mr, 294. 
Tliomond, Earl of, 84. 
Thompson, Allion, 275. 

Thornell, , 39. 

Thynne, Lady Isabel, 50. 
Tinojo, Don Diego^ wife of, 277. 
Titian, the celebrated Painter, 296. 

Works of, 229. 

Toison d'Or, The, 349. 
Toledo, Governor of, 208, 209. 

his wife, 209, 210. 

Cardinal of, 258. 

Archbishop of, 239. 

reception at, 209, 210. 

Torres Vedra, Countess of, 27. 
Trusifall, Marchioness de, 276. 

Marquess of, 271. 289. 

Turner, Sir Edward, 179. 181. 214. 249. 

Lady, 174, 175. 

Sir Edmund, 30. 121. 179. 30G. 358, 3511. 

Tyler, Mr. 149. 

Utbert, Captain, 182. 193. 
Utrera, Corregidor of, 200. 
reception at, 200. 317. 

Vane, Sir Henry, 118. 

VanTromp, 317. 

Vel, Marquess de la, 266. 

Veleam, Mr. 275. 

Vellon money reduced in value, 223. 

Venetian Ambassador, 332. 334. 33Q. 

Villa Franca, Countess of, 164, 

Villiers, Lord Francis, 69. 

Waller, Mr. the Poet, 72. 



INDEX. 

Waller, Mrs. 74. 

Walley, Dr. 33. 

Warrington, Francis, 275. 

Warwick, Sir Philip, 21. C5. 123 292. 302. 357. 

Waters, Mr. 112. 

Wats, Sir John, 175. 

Weeden, Mr. 270. 274. 287. 

Weir, Jonathan, 305. 

Werden, Mr. 355-6. 

Westminster, Dean of, 148. 

White, Mr. 290. 

Williams, Thomas, 276. 

Wilton, the seat of the Earl of Pembroke, 148. 

Winchester, Bishop of, 173. 177. 

Windebank, Secretary, 43, 44, 106. 

Winston, Dr. 26. 

Winter, Sir John, 293. 

Wolstenholme, Sir John, 31. 

Lady, 26. 

Woodcock, Sir Thomas, 147. 
Worcester, Marquess of, 89. 

Marchioness of, 55. 

battle of, 113. 

Wrey, Sir John, 18. 255. 

Wright, Sir Benjamin, 181. 214. 220. 

Wycherley, Mr, 214.249. 

Xeres, Corregidor of, 199. 
reception at, 199. 317. 

York, Duke of, 135, 136. 178, 179. 293. 295, 299. 
~ Duchess of, 178, 179. 293. 296. 
Young, , 117. 119. 123, 124. 

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I. 
THE POETICAL WORKS of THOMAS CAMPBELL, Esq. 

now first collected. In 2 vols, small 8vo. with a fine Portrait, engraved by 
Burnet, after the Painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence. 18s. 

" This handsome, though small edition of Mr, Campbell's poetical works, must be received 
with universal favour. Never did poet produce a work more deserving of female acceptation." 
—Literary Gazette. 

" We do not notice this beautiful little edition of his Poems with a view to praise them j 
this were superfluous. The fame of Campbell already soars far beyond our criticism ; and 
the public opinion has set the seal of its favour on every production of his elegant muse. He 
stands, and justly stands, in the very first rank of modern British bards. We consider these 
volumes as supplying a desideratum in one of the most popular departments of our elegant 
literature," — Edinburgh Evening Post. 

II. 

NOLLEKENS AND HIS TIMES. Second Edition. In 
2 vols. 8vo. with a fine Portrait, from a drawing by Jackson, price 24s. Among 
the numerous friends and patrons of the Sculptor, of whom curious anecdotes 
are recorded in this work, will be found— George III. — The Princess of Wales 
—Lord Londonderry — the Earl of Besborough — Lord Coleraine — Lord Mans- 
field — Sir N. Dance Holland — Sir Robert and Lady Strange — Sir W. Staines 
— Sir P. Lely — Sir Joshua Reynolds — Colonel Hamilton — Colonel King — Mr. 
Pitt— Mr. Fox — Mr. Whitbread — Mr. and Mrs. Garrick — Mrs. Siddons— Mr. 

Coutts Barry — Charles Bannister — Seward — Sterne — Hogarth — Wilkes — 

Fielding — Dr. Johnson — Dr. Goldsmith — Dr. Burney — Dr. Wolcott — G. 
Steevens — Cibber — Gainsborough — Mr. Payne Knight — Mrs. Radcliffe — 
Miss Hawkins— Mrs. Carter— Mrs. Thrale— Mr. Boswell, &c. &c. 

III. 
MEMOIRS of SCIPIO DE RICCI, Minister of the late 
GRAND DUKE LEOPOLD of TUSCANY.—Containing an expos^ of the 
Romish Church Establishment of the 18th Century and of the Abuses of the 
Jesuits throughout the greater part of Europe. Edited by Thomas Roscoe, 
Esa. In 2 vols. 8vo. with Portrait, 21s. 

IV. 

MEMOIRS of the DUKE of ROVIGO, (SAVARY) Minister 
of Police under Napoleon. Written by Himself, and ending with the 
Period of the BATTLE of WATERLOO. Editions in French and English 
complete in 4 large vols. 8vo. comprising the 8 vols, of the Paris edition. 
N. B. Either of the vols, may be had separately to complete sets. 
" These Memoirs are invaluable." — Literary Gazette. 

"The Duke's Memoirs possess much of the dignity and importance of history, and will 
take their enduring place in all historical libraries, when other perishable memoirs of the day 
shall have sunk into oblivion." — New Monthly Magazine. 

V. 

MEMOIRS and CORRESPONDENCE of the late DR. SA- 
MUEL PARR, with BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES and ANECDOTES of 
many of his FRIENDS, PUPILS, and CONTEMPORARIES. By the 
Rev. William Field. In 2 vols. 8vo. with Portraits, 28s. 



WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED. 

MEMOIRS of the EMPRESS JOSEPHINE. By Made- 
moiselle DucREST. In 3 vols, post 8vo. II. lis. 6d. French 24s. 

" A curious and entertaining piece of domestic biography of a most extraordinary person, 
under circumstances almost unprecedented." — New Monthly Magazine. 

"An extremely amusing book, full of anecdotes and traits of characters of kings, princes, 
nobles, gene/als, &c." — Morning Journal. 

VII. 

GODWIN'S HISTORY of the COMMONWEALTH of 
ENGLAND. Complete in 4 vols. 8vo. 31. 2s. 

During the progress of this history, the author has derived an invaluable ac- 
cession of authorities from the records of the proceedings of the Long Parlia- 
ment, which, owing to the researches of Mr. Lemmon, have been recently dis- 
covered in the State Paper Office. These documents, and the collection of Com- 
monwealth Tracts given by George III. to the British Museum, have enabled 
Mr. Godwin to throw much new light upon the general history of the time, and 
especially to clear up certain mysterious and controverted points connected with 
the early transactions of the Regicides. 

VIII. 
COMMENTARIES on the LIFE and REIGN of CHARLES I. 
KING of ENGLAND. By I. D'Israeli, Author of the Curiosities of Lite- 
rature, &c. 2 vols. 8vo. 21s. 

IX. 

ILLUSTRATIONS of the LITERARY CHARACTER ; or, 
the HISTORY of MEN of GENIUS, drawn from their OWN FEELINGS 
and CONFESSIONS. By I. D'Israeli. The Fourth Edition, with a Let- 
ter and Notes by Lord Byron. In 2 vols, post 8vo. 18s. 

X. 

LORD BYRON and SOME of HIS CONTEMPORARIES. 

By Leigh Hunt. Comprising his Correspondence with Lord Byron, Mr. 
Shelley, &c. Second Edit, in 2 vols. 8vo. with Portraits and Fac-similes, 28s. 
" 'Tis for slaves to lie, and for freemen to speak truth.'' — Montaigne. 
•• It must be acknowledged, that in this very curious series of literary and personal 
sketches, Mr. Hunt has sketched in a very bold manner, not only the public, but the pri- 
vate characters and habits of many of the celebrated writers of the present day. The Letters 
of Lord Byron and Mr. Shelley will also be found eminently interesting." — Morning Chronicle. 

XI. 

NOTIONS of the AMERICANS: picked up by a TRA- 
VELLING BACHELOR. 2 vols. 8vo. IZ. 8s. 

" IVTr. Cooper's book is the best that has been written on America." — London Weekly Re- 
view. 

'* We have read these volumes with the most unmingled satisfaction. The writer is no 
other than Cooper, the well-known national novelist of America." — Monthly Magazine. 

" The announcement of a book by such a man, on the character and manners of his coun- 
trymen, has necessarily excited a good deal of attention. Most persons have been long wish- 
ing for a book of this description." — Literary Chronicle. 

XII. 

MEMORIALS of SHAKSPEARE ; or Sketches of his Cha- 
racter and Genius, by Sir Walter Scott, Campbell, Coleridge, Godwin, 
Mackenzie, Cumberland, Warton, Dryden, Goethe, the two Schlegels, Lessing, 
Madame de Stael, and other eminent Writers. Edited, with a Preface and 
Notes, by Nathan Drake, M.D. &c. In 1 large volume 8vo. forming a va- 
luable accompaniment to every Edition of the Poet. 14s. 
" The design and execution of this volume are admirable." — Gentleman's Magazine. 



WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED 

XIII. 

MEMOIRS and CORRESPONDENCE of SAMUEL PEPYS, 
Esq. F.R.S. Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles IL and James 
II., and the intimate friend of the celebrated John Evelyn. Edited bv 
Lord Brayijrooke. Second Edition. In 5 vols. 8vo. embellished with For. 
traits and other Engravings, by the first Artists. 3/. 10s. 

" Notwithstanding the extensive popularity of the Memoirs of Grammont, and the still 
greater attractions of those of Evelyn, we have no hesitation in stating our opinion that these 
volumes will outstrip them both in public estimation. They reach the very beauideal of what 
we desire from such records."— Literary Gazette. 

XIV. 

MEMOIRS and CORRESPONDENCE of JOHN EVELYN, 

Esq. the celebrated Author of " Sylva," &c. ; with the Private Correspondence 
between King Charles I., Sir Edward Nicholas, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir 
Richard Browne, Slc &c. Edited by W. Bray, Esq. F.S.A. &c. New Edi- 
tion, in 5 vols. 8vo, with Portraits and other Plates. 3/. 10s. 

XV. 
THE CORRESPONDENCE and DIARIES of HENRY 
HYDE, EARL of CLARENDON, and LAWRENCE HYDE, EARL of 
ROCHESTER ; comprising minute particulars of the events attending the 
Revolution, &c. &c. ; published from the Original Manuscripts, with Notes. 
In 2 vols. 4to. Illustrated with Portraits, copied from the Originals, by per- 
mission of the Right Hon. the Earl of Clarendon ; and other Engravings. 51. 5s. 

** Of all the momentous epochs in the annals of England, from the Norman Conquest to 
the year 1688, there is not one of equal moment to that upon which the volumes before us 
throw so many new lights." — Literary Gazette. 

"This valuable collection of papers is an important accession to the histoiical and bio- 
graphical library." — Gentleman's Magazine. 

XVI. 

PRIVATE MEMOIRS of FOREIGN COURTS. In 2 vols. 
8vo. 28s. 

"These volumes comprise many historical details of an extremely interesting character."— Star. 

XVII. 

MEMOIRS of the LIFE of MRS. SIDDONS. By James 
BoADEK, Esq. interspersed with Anecdotes of Aiithors and Actors, and in- 
tended as a Companion to the Life of Mr. Kemble- Printed uniformly with 
that work. In 2 vols. 8vo. with a fine Portrait, engraved by Turner, from a 
Picture by Sir Thomas Lawrence. 28s. 

XVIII. 
An OCTAVO EDITION of the MEMOIRS OF GRANVILLE 
SHARP. Composed moM his own Manuscripts and other Authentic 
Documents, in the possession of his Family. By Prince Hoare. 
With Observations on Mr. Sharp's Biblical Criticisms, by the Right 
Rev. the Lord Bishop or Salisbury. In 2 vols. 8vo. with a fine Portrait, 
after the Bust by Chantrey. 24s. 

" Every thing that Mr. Sharp wrote, and said, and did, is worthy of attention." — Enquirer. 
" We rejoice to see this excellent biography of a most amiable and virtuous man in a form 
better suited to general readers than the first quarto." — Literary Gazette. 

XIX. 

MEMOIRS of THEOBALD WOLFE TONE, Written by Him- 
self. Comprising a complete Journal of his Negotiations to procure the aid of 
the French for the Liberation of Ireland, with Selections from his Dia- 
ries, whilst Agent to the Irish Catholics. Edited by his Son, William 
Theobald Wolfe Tone. In 2 vols. 8vo. with Portrait. 24s. 

XX. 

THE REMINISCENCES of THOMAS DIBDIN, of the Thea- 
tres Royal Dniry Lane, Covent Garden, &c. and Author of the " Cabinet," 
Ac. &c. In 2 vols. 8vo. with Portrait. 28s. 



BY HENRY COLBURN. 

xxr. 
.r.^S^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^FE and* TRAVELS of JOHN LED- 
r^t^^' X? African Traveller. From his JOURNALS and CORRESPOND- 
±iiNC±i. J\ow first published, in 1 vol. post 8vo. 10s. Cd. 

" The Narrative is intensely interesting."— London Weekly Review. 

" This is a book which will be perused with delight by all who have any relish for the ori- 
ginal and the adventurous. The journal of our traveller is exceedingly lull and circumstan- 
tial with respect to the death of Captain Cook. Ledyard was one of the small parly who 
landed with the unfortunate navigator on the morning of his death, and was near him during 
the fatal contest. His narrative must, therefore, be more valuable than those of Captaini 
King and Burney, neither of whom was onshore with Cook."— Literary Chronicle. 

XXII. 

THE LIFE of FREDERICK REYNOLDS (the Dramatist). 

Written by Himself. Comprising numerous Anecdotes of distinguished Per- 
sons, Royal, Political, Fashionable, Literary, and Musical. 2 vols. 8vo with a 
Portrait. 28s. 

" It is the peculiar advantage of theatrical talent, ihat it brings the possessor into contact 
with whatever is most distinguished in contemporary society ; accordingly, the present book 
is thickly strewn with names, whose very enunciation begets an interest." New Monthly Mag. 

XXIII. 

RECOLLECTIONS of the LIFE of JOHN O'KEEFFE (the 
veteran Comic Dramatist). Written by Himself. Comprising numerous 
very curious and original Anecdotes of distinguished persons of his time, in 
England and Ireland, from the year 1755 to the present time. In 2 vols. 8vo. 
with a fine Portrait. 28s. 

XXIV. 

THE LIVES of the Right Hon. FRANCIS NORTH, BARON 
GUILFORD, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, under King Charles II. and King 
James II. ; the Hon. Sir DUDLEY NORTH, Commissioner of the Customs, 
and afterwards of the Treasury to King Charles II. ; and of the Hon. and Rev. 
Dr. JOHN NORTH, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Clerk of the 
Closet to King Charles II. By the Hon. Roger North; with Notes and 
Illustrations, historical and biographical. In 3 vols, 8vo. with Portraits. 3Gs. 
" The light which these volumes liirow upon a period, described by Mr. Fox as ' one of the 
most singular and important of our history,' and the disclosures which they present of the 
court intrigues of that day, so difficult to be understood, even with all the illustrations which 
the researches of later times have produced, are perhaps greater than those to be derived 
from any other memoirs relating to the same period." — Editor's Preface. 

XXV. 

THE REMINISCENCES of HENRY ANGELO. 8vo. 15s. 

This work comprises Memoirs of the elder Angelo, his Friends, and Con- 
nexions, from his first arrival in England, in 1750. It contains numerous Ori- 
ginal Anecdotes and curious Traits in the Personal History of many noble and 
Illustrious Characters. The Book abounds not only in piquant matter relating 
to Persons of Rank, but of Talent also ; for the elder Angelo's intimacy with 
Englishmen as well as Foreigners, Professors of all the Fine Arts, &c. made his 
house, in Carlisle-street, for many years the rendezvous of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 
Garrick, the Sheridans, the Linleys, Gainsborough, Foote, Bach, Abel, &c. &c. 

XXVI. 

THE LIFE of GEORGE, LORD JEFFREYS, sometime Lord 
Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and Lord High Chancellor of England in 
the Reign of James II. By Humphry W. Woolrych, Esq. 14s. 

The name of Jeffreys has been handed down to posterity as though no cen- 
sures were too great, no curses too bitter for him. The scanty memoirs which 
Iiave been yet pubhshed concerning him, abound more in efforts to aggravate 
his unpopularity, than to canvass the aictions of his impetuous career with tlie 
impartiality which is due to history. The Author of these pages has honestly 
endeavoured to display the bright as well as the dark colourings of the Judge's 
character ; and while he does not attempt to palliate those vices which all man- 
kind have concurred in condemning, he boldly asks a meed of i)raisc for Jef- 
freys where the redeeming points of his conduct consistently demand it. 



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THE COURT JOURNAL. 



The leading and peculiar object of this Paper is, to supply what 
has long been felt as a desideratum in the Higher Circles of the 
British Metropolis. Its pages will furnish a mingled Record and 
Review of all matters and events (Political subjects alone excepted,) 
which are calculated to interest that class of readers who come with- 
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peculiar, but by no means the sole object of the Court Journal. 
It will, in fact, embrace every feature which favourably distinguishes 
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In conformity with the peculiar views and objects of the Court 
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The Conductors of the Court Journal venture to add an ex- 
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it impossible for any one to be mistaken as to the nature of its re- 
sources, and the class of patronage under which it is ushered into 
the world ; or to doubt that these are such as were never before 
possessed by a public Journal. 

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columns, price 8d, or stamped for circulation in the Country free 
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